Dashing free Cossack known by the people as Stenka Razin appeared on the Don not by chance. The oppression of the serfs became harder and harder, and the dependence of the peasants became stronger and stronger. Governors and officials ...

About Bolotnikov Ivan Isayevich little information. Modern historians do not even have information about the exact date of his birth. It is known that this man was a fugitive serf from among the serfs ....

Pobedonostsev Konstantin Petrovich - statesman, lawyer, talented publicist, chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod. The attitude of historians to this controversial personality is very contradictory ....

The brilliant commander and skillful diplomat Pavel Dmitrievich Tsitsianov was born in a noble family with deep Georgian roots. The Tsitsianovs moved to Russia long before the appearance of Paul ...

Peter Ludwig von der Palen was born in 1745, and by the time the coup was accomplished, he was already quite mature and formed. His military career began in 1760 participation in the war with Turkey ....

The issues of emergency and rescue work in the warships of warships and submarines were given great importance by Soviet military scientists. In the middle of the 30 of the XX century, a theory was developed, and ...

Famous historical figure Alexei Andreyevich Arakcheev devoted not one article, publication and book. In the Soviet years, the importance of this statesman for the Russian Empire was estimated ...

The political figure of Osterman has not been sufficiently studied by Russian historians; in the author's works we find only superficial references to this extraordinary person. In his biography ...

The biographical portrait of Alexander Menshikov is very ambiguous. Some claim that this politician and the permanent leader of the king was a commoner, others consider him a little-known ...

1598 year was the beginning of the reign of Boris Godunov - the first Russian tsar, who was elected to the throne by his subjects, and not received by inheritance, or seized by force. Moscow celebrated the arrival ...

2012 year - the year of high-profile dates and anniversaries. 12 this January, an outstanding Soviet designer and scientist Sergei Pavlovich Korolev would have turned 105 years. If we talk about people who are all their ...

The success of the StuG III assault guns gave the German SAU a new impetus for further development. The Wehrmacht needed a well-defended tank destroyer with a low silhouette. Nucleon ...

One of the worst disasters of the Soviet troops during the Great Patriotic War is the defeat of the Bryansk Front and the formation of the Vyazemsky "boiler" during the German operation "Typhoon". Tasks for ...

In the modern world it is almost impossible to imagine an industry where laser technology was not even partially used. And the military industry is no exception. On...

It is not for nothing that Andrei Makarevich has lines in the text of the song "Puppets": "... the dolls are pulled by the strings, they have smiles on their faces ...". Let's start with how we feel about the President of the Chechen ...

The October Revolution led to a split in the armed forces. The officers who faithfully served the tsar took at least three positions in relation to the Bolsheviks: a position of non-reconciliation in relation to ...

In order to assess the events of more than thirty years ago, it is probably worth recalling the policy of the Soviet Union of those years. Indeed, in an irrepressible zeal to expand the bloc of socialist ...

The Russian command was not going to defend the western part of the Kingdom of Poland. This territory was deeply wedged between Germany and Austria-Hungary, it was difficult to defend it, the enemy could surround ours ...

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) - US Federal Emergency Management Agency. At first glance, the tasks of this American agency are simple and clear, and FEMA can ...

Benito Mussolini is considered the founder of European fascism, which brought immense and unjustified suffering to millions of people, putting humanity on the brink of destruction. How did he manage ...

The program for the purchase and development of military equipment for the Russian army, adopted at 2006, was not implemented at all points. Therefore, the Government was forced to adopt 24 in February 2011. A new program ...

At the end of December, 1979, the special forces of the Soviet Army and the KGB, stormed the residence of the head of Afghanistan - Amin Palace in Kabul. The result of this operation was not only a change ...

Berlin, London, Paris wanted to start a big war in Europe, Vienna was not against the defeat of Serbia, although they didn’t want a general European war. The reason for the war gave the Serbian conspirators, who also ...

In the last decade there has been a real renaissance of Stalinism. At the beginning of 1990, few people would have thought that this could happen against the backdrop of the triumph of the ideas of liberalism and the "European choice" ...