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St. Petersburg is once again justifying its status as a pro-Western center of the Romanov Empire, whose basic values a part of the current Russian "elite" is trying to revive. First, St. Petersburg "thundered" with a memorial plaque to Mannerheim, whose Finnish army, together with the Nazis, tried to wipe out

100 years ago, on February 23 (March 8) 1917, the revolution began in the Russian Empire. Spontaneous meetings and strikes at the end of 1916 - beginning of 1917, caused by various socio-economic reasons and the war, developed into a general strike in Petrograd. Began beating cops, soldiers

February was an elite palace coup with revolutionary consequences. The February-March coup was not carried out by the people, although the conspirators took advantage of the popular discontent and, if possible, reinforced it with all available means. At the same time, the Februaryist conspirators themselves are clearly not

In an ugly atmosphere of political instability in the Russian capital and on the outskirts, rallies at the front itself, the Provisional Government's distrust of the generals, Headquarters and the headquarters of the fronts developed plans for a summer offensive. True, the generals did not know whether it would be possible to withdraw the soldiers from the trenches

100 years ago, on March 3 (16), 1917, the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich signed an act of refusal to accept the throne of the Russian Empire (the act of “non-acceptance of the throne”). Formally, Mikhail retained the rights to the Russian throne, the question of the form of government remained open until the decision of the Constituent

The February coup is interesting in that everyone renounced Nicholas II: the grand dukes, the highest generals, the church, the State Duma, and representatives of all leading political parties. The Tsar was overthrown not by the Bolshevik commissars and Red Guards, as the inhabitants of Russia had been taught since 1991, but by representatives

Armed uprising The decisive moment of the February revolution was the transition on February 27 (March 12) 1917 to the side of the demonstrators of the Petrograd garrison, after which the rallies grew into an armed uprising. Historian Richard Pipes wrote: “It is impossible to understand what happened in February-March 1917

100 years ago, on March 2 (15), 1917, the Russian Emperor Nicholas II abdicated the throne. The Tsar's court historiographer, General Dmitry Dubensky, who constantly accompanied him on trips during the war, commented on the abdication:

The intelligentsia in Russia, like the bulk of the ruling elite and the educated part of the population, was liberal, pro-Western. She was brought up on Western ideas. Some admired liberalism and democracy, others - socialism (Marxism). As a result, the intelligentsia in its mass

Already at the beginning of August 1914, in the workshops of the city of Tarnopol, the 9th railway battalion, operating on the South-Western Front, built the first Russian armored train. Initially, it consisted of an Austro-Hungarian steam locomotive and three carriages - two machine-gun and one gun. Its armament consisted of

The Munich agreement, it would seem, has long and reliably been studied up and down. Meanwhile, it is considered to be an agreement between the monolithic West and Nazi Germany, while in the last part we established that the West was in fact fragmented and its leaders persecuted their own, and diametrically

How is it, friends? A man looks at the cherry blossoms and a long sword on his belt! Mukai Kyorai (1651 - 1704). Translation by V. Markova Samurai were instilled from childhood not only loyalty to military duty and taught all the subtleties of the military craft, but also they were taught relaxation, because a person cannot only do this and

O knights, get up, the hour has come! You have shields, steel helmets and armor. Your dedicated sword is ready to fight for the faith. Give strength to me, oh God, for new glorious slaughter. I, beggar, will take a rich booty there. I don’t need gold and I don’t need land, but maybe I

In November 1914, German units broke through the Russian North-Western Front in the Lodz area. To cover the Warsaw-Skarnevitsa railway, by order of the head of the 6th Siberian Infantry Division, the 4th Railway Battalion hastily equipped an armored train. Time was running out, so for him

Armored trains in the Caucasus At the end of 1914, the construction of four armored trains for the Caucasian army began in the Tiflis workshops. Each of them consisted of a semi-armored steam locomotive, two four-axle armored cars and an armored car for ammunition. Between themselves, they had a number of differences in type

Everyone knows that US Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were killed in assassination attempts. However, few people know that another American warrior president ended his life in this way: we are talking about the 25th US President William McKinley. Consider McKinley's path to the presidency

On August 6, the Russian Federation celebrates the Day of Railway Troops. This holiday was first established by the corresponding Decree of the President of the Russian Federation in 1996, and in 2006 a new Decree of the President of the Russian Federation was adopted "On the establishment of professional holidays and memorable days in the Armed

“Everything for the front! Everything for victory!”, The slogan of the Communist Party, formulated in the Directive of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of June 29, 1941 … and proclaimed on July 3, 1941 on the radio in a speech by the Chairman of the State Defense Committee I.V. Stalin. Expressed the essence of the program that was developed by the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the Soviet government for

Storm! The storm is coming soon! It is the brave Petrel soaring proudly between the lightning over the roaring sea with anger; then the prophet of victory shouts: - Let the storm break out stronger! Bitter. Song about the Petrel. On June 18, 1938, 80 years ago, the great writer Maxim Gorky passed away. Great Russian and then Soviet

After the overthrow of Abdul-Latif Khan (Kazan Khan in 1497-1502) and his exile in Beloozero, his elder brother Muhammad-Amin (ruled in 1484-1485, 1487-1496 and 1502-1518) was re-seated on the Kazan throne. ). He, despite the regular assistance from Moscow, which he was provided with for the capture