Over the past two centuries in the production of military weapons there has been a tendency to reduce caliber. It is obvious to everyone that it is impossible to create the perfect weapon, so the designers are trying to make a rifle that will surpass all analogues. In 1974, a significant event occurred in the […]
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After the capture of Moscow, Hitler, in accordance with the plan for Operation Typhoon, intended to complete the campaign against the USSR. Let us reflect on how the course of the war could develop in the event of a hypothetical fall of the Soviet capital. Not in our favor Writer Vyacheslav Shpakovsky in his anti-utopia […]
History of the Second world war are so complex and multifaceted that it is often difficult to separate truth from fiction and propaganda from actual statistics. Even the number of dead and wounded can not be accurately set – scientists and researchers have reported a figure of 28 to 43 million people. But one thing […]
In the Northern part of lake Ladoga, called in the ancient times nevo, there are numerous Islands, the largest of them being Valaam. Light water rough lake wash an archipelago; without going to the shores of the Valaam Islands, they form picturesque bays and Straits, many of which serve as a refuge for ships seeking […]
History of the Romanov dynasty can be read as a detective. At every step – their white spots. The origin of the dynasty, the story of the emblem and the circumstances of their accession to the throne all this still causes ambiguous interpretations of historians. 1. Prussian origin dynasty. The ancestor of the Romanov dynasty […]
Ivan Susanin – a folk hero, a symbol of “peasant” loyalty to the king. For 400 years, the name and the legend of the miraculous salvation of the first sovereign of the Romanov dynasty became a part of folklore. Where did you learn? The history of the heroic deeds of Ivan Susanin till XIX century […]
Catherine II was so sure that it will revive the Byzantine Empire that even a grandson named Constantine, and was preparing to give him power. Annexation of the Crimea was part of this ambitious project. Fall of an Empire. May 30, 1453 can be considered the date of closure of Byzantium. That same day, after […]
That Neptune makes on the arms of the Great Ustyug? Like a Peacock was the emblem of Serpukhov? “Russia is a riddle wrapped or wrapped in a mystery, inside an Enigma. When you look at Russian arms, you know that Churchill was right. Neptune in the conditions of the Russian North. In Russian state symbols […]
“Hindustan is ours” and “Russian soldiers washing their boots in the Indian Ocean” – it could become a reality in the distant 1801, when Paul I, together with Napoleon attempted the conquest of India. Impregnable Asia. How successful was on the development of Russian East, just as it proved to be unsuccessful in the south. […]
Several centuries enthusiasts and adventurers unsuccessfully search the library of Ivan the Terrible. Serious scientists impress – search meaningless. But hope still remains. Birth of a legend. Leave a trace in the history of two ways: to create something brilliant or mess things up something crazy. But if a person is not able to be […]
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