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...

The last battles and the death of Blackbeard...

Jacques de Lalen, who chose the path of the knight errant, was portrayed in Burgundian literature as an ideal warrior. The hero of many tournament fights, he traveled throughout Castile, Aragon, Portugal,...

On January 20, 1944, troops of the Volkhov Front liberated Novgorod. The German army occupied the ancient Russian city in August 1941...

Alexander Menshikov: versions of the origin and acquaintance with Peter I, the beginning of the royal service...

Let's talk about the difficult fate of a strong woman - Grace O'Malley. A pirate whose ships were terrifying, and a warrior who caused problems for the queen...

Mehmed-Girey behaved arrogantly and arrogantly. He announced that Crimea is the heir to the Golden Horde. He tried to unite the former uluses of the Horde, turn Lithuanian and Muscovite Rus' into tributaries...

This building can be endlessly awarded with epithets and laudatory comparisons with the best examples of architecture of the 20th century. But the Pentagon is not about beauty and grace, it is about the American military and efforts...

The nomenklatura chose to slow down the development of the USSR, which ultimately stopped it and led to “stagnation” and Gorbachev’s perestroika. The simplification of Soviet society and civilization became the cause of the disaster...

The current state of affairs in the Middle East is largely a direct consequence of the United States' policies towards Iraq since the late 1970s; Saddam also tried to play...

The king of the Britons, who studied in Athens, survived leprosy thanks to pigs and died like Icarus. The life of Bladud, overgrown with legends...