In the first days of February, Bagrationovsk will traditionally celebrate the anniversary of one of Napoleonic victories...

In the summer of 1919, the Red Army retreated for a year. Denikin’s men were marching on Moscow, carrying salt for sale on an “officer” armored train, in a word, the prospects were excellent. And here, in order to finally finish off the Red Army...

Immediately after the end of the duel with the English Esquire Thomas Ke (Kew), the errant knight Jacques de Lalen announced a padarme, called the “Fountain of Tears”...

The short but bright military career of the French commander Gaston de Foix during the Italian Wars...

In 1991, the United States relatively easily and with the help of satellites dealt with Saddam’s army, weakened by the long Iran-Iraq war, and 22 years later captured and essentially destroyed his country...

Catherine I and the teenage Emperor Peter II, the peak of A. Menshikov’s career and fall, the fate of the descendants of the temporary worker...

The concept of “Ukrainianism” became widespread at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, then in the Russian Empire, both among the Ukrainophiles themselves and among their opponents –...

We all know about the successful actions carried out by state security agencies against the OUN-UPA in the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR, and how, thanks to their courage and professionalism,...

His name is Cornelius Drebbel. It’s unlikely that many have heard of him, but in the 17th century all of Europe was talking about him...

Why did the high-explosive shells of the Russian Imperial Navy during the Russo-Japanese War turn out to be so bad...

120 years ago, on the night of January 27 (February 9), 1904, a Japanese squadron without warning attacked the Russian fleet in Port Arthur, which marked the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War...

Hero of Perevolochnaya, member of the English Academy of Sciences and a distinguished thief, “high relations” of Martha Skavronskaya, Peter I and Alexander Menshikov...

The familiar deck of 52 cards with aces, queens, kings and jacks, four suits did not appear immediately. Let's figure out how the cards have changed over time...

80 years ago, troops of the Leningrad Front completely liberated Leningrad from the German blockade. In honor of the victory won in Leningrad, a twenty-four artillery salute was fired on January 27...

Once upon a time, a man named Saul lived in Jerusalem. And he was famous for the fact that he fiercely hated the first Christians, whom in those years the Jews considered apostates, and therefore cruelly tortured and...

The Americans did not want any equal cooperation with the USSR. Truman raised the question of the “constant and burning need to lead the world”...

Japanese officer Kenji Doihara rightfully earned the nickname "Lawrence of Manchuria." Even the British, masters of secret warfare, highly appreciated Doihara's role in the behind-the-scenes struggle for dominance in Asia...

80 years ago, on January 24, 1944, the Korsun-Shevchenko offensive operation of the Red Army began. The Wehrmacht escaped the “second Stalingrad”, but suffered a heavy defeat...

He was born in Windsor Castle on silk sheets, as befits a royal child, and died in the Tower, a royal prison without repentance and, at best, on a sheet of rough canvas...

January marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of the dashing partisan commander and poet Misha Cherny. Several times he owed his salvation to ordinary women who hid him from the Nazis. Misha's story...

Brehon's Law is a body of Irish law that was in force for about a thousand years until England completely conquered Ireland...

Events of the summer of 1919 in the materials of the newspaper Izvestia. The newspaper was very large in format, and it contained a lot of information....

100 years ago, on January 21, 1924, the founder and first head of the Soviet state, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, passed away...

Commander A.D. Menshikov. The Battle of Lesnaya, the capture of Baturin, the Battle of Poltava...