History 2024, November

In an ordinary Russian school for ordinary standard children, everything went wrong from the very beginning as it had before in the special school and in the gymnasium. If there 80% of the children in the class did everything "right" at 4 and 5, and 20% experienced difficulties, then 80% of the children could not do anything, and only 20% had something

Sickle of the harvest slash Sec vezh from the shoulders, And the wounds stag Cried a red cry. And steel rdians From steel ice Armor in a drunken Amusement of abuse. (Egil, son of Grim the Bald. "Redemption of the head." Translation by SV Petrov) Simultaneously with the spread of the installation tradition runestones in Scandinavia at the same time become

On the pages of "VO" it has already been noted that 15 thousand castles (of varying degrees of preservation) remind of the Middle Ages in Europe. There is data on the Internet that in England (well, it is clear that there are more than 380 of them preserved in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland)! And among them one of the most famous

The serpent rushed the son of Tryggvi, Well done, through the waves, The mouth gaping evil, Zlatom pobzhata. Olav climbed on the Bison, The noble of the wolf is water. The beast soap the sea A powerful horn on the road. (A memorial drape about Saint Olav. most of our people have heard a lot about the Vikings and their ships, and even a century

Hold on, bald man, to the ship! The hour of your judgment is ripe. The arrogant spirit of the support Among this blizzard of foam. Mouth do not mow you eyelids, Take down the sea blizzard. There are plenty of maidens to love! Two deaths cannot be. (Thorir Glacier. Separate Vis. Translation by S. V. Petrov.) The custom of burying the nobility in the mounds is very ancient. And was distributed

As an encouragement to anyone who would have come up with a device for transporting the Thunder Stone, they promised a prize of 7,000 rubles - a huge amount for that time. And while the Office of Buildings was collecting proposals, they dug a stone from all sides, marked the future road (which was supposed to bypass swamps and hills), and

Why and why does it happen that people try to write something on "VO" without even bothering to look at the Internet? The topic of drunkenness in Russia is being discussed, well, it is so obvious that you need to look … where? A thesis on this topic! As easy as pie! But, apparently, or about what is in it, people do not

There are nine deeds I know: Good scribe, Dashing in the game of tavlein, Skier and scribe. Bow, oar and glorious Warehouse of runes are subject to me. I am skilled in forging, As well as in a gud gusel. (Rögnwald Kali. "Poetry of the Skalds."

Readers of "VO" positively assessed the material about the Thunder-stone, although, of course, it was not without alternative delights. Therefore, the idea arose to continue this material, but not with my own writings (what if it’s a fiction of a “science fiction author” or a hired by “dark forces”!), But with excerpts from documents

For battles in narrow aisles On this day, little European science, Cannons, horses and armor were suitable. Heinrich Heine. "Witzliputsli". Translated by N. Gumilyov Offensive weapons The main weapons of the conquistadors were traditional swords, spears, crossbows, arquebusses and muskets with match locks, as well as small-caliber

So, we know that the "Wendel period" in the history of Sweden (550-793) was the era of the end of the German Iron Age in Scandinavia, or, one might say, the era of the great migration of peoples. The center of all religious and political life was the Old Uppsala area in Uppland

Today we will have an excursion, and not just anywhere, but to the Royal Danish Arsenal Museum. Its other name is the Museum of Military History and Weapons, (dat.Tøjhusmuseet), and it is located next to the building of the country's parliament Kristianborg in the building of the arsenal of the times of Christian IV (1604), which is why it is so

In our country, there is probably no person who would not know that there is a monument to Peter the Great on Senate Square in St. Petersburg and that this monument is called "The Bronze Horseman". There is a poem "The Bronze Horseman" written by A.S. Pushkin. They don't study it at school, but they get to know each other … There are postcards, albums, TV

The question of what caused the migration of nomadic peoples from Asia to the West is still being discussed by scientists and there is still no consensus on this issue. Was it a long-term catastrophic drought or, on the contrary, torrential rains and snowy lingering winters made nomadic animal husbandry

Whether you are a good spirit, or an angel of evil, Breath of heaven, hell breeze, For harm or benefit your thoughts … (Hamlet. W. Shakespeare) The theme of locks is popular among visitors to the VO site, and this is not surprising at all. "Idols of the cave", as psychologists say, that is, absorbed with the genes of our cave

Needless to say, archaeologists were unlucky with the finds of Viking armor. Just one single "helmet from Gjermundby" is, of course, clearly not enough. But on the other hand, they were lucky with their ships, which were found quite enough to properly study. Moreover, what is especially interesting, they found

And it so happened that in childhood, even when I myself did not read books, but they read them to me, my mother read me a book by Jean Olivier "The Viking Campaign" and … my life immediately changed to "before this book" and "after". I immediately began to cut out images of Vikings from old textbooks, which I had in my house full of

Not so long ago, a material appeared on the pages of VO "Why are monuments to be erected to Czechoslovak murderers and looters in Russia", which dealt with the uprising of the Czechoslovak corps in the spring of 1918. Judging by the comments, the topic is still of interest to many people, and why this is so is understandable

The two previous materials, vividly reflecting the biographies of different people who got into the Penza "Martyrolog", caused an ambiguous reaction from visitors to the VO website, and this is understandable. The spirit of the old totalitarian past is too strong in people, longing for a strong hand, lashes, felling, moreover

“How to distinguish an alien who has assumed our appearance and lives among us from an ordinary person? And here's how: if you see a bald man in front of you, on whose head a fly is crawling, but he does not react to it in any way, you should know - in front of you is definitely an alien, and the skin on his head is solid silicone! "

Clothing and weapons It is interesting that, although in Spain in the 15th and 16th centuries. and their own national armed forces were created, special, prescribed by law, they still did not have uniforms. That is, when hiring for military service, soldiers had to dress at their own expense. And much

On the eve of the peasant reform of 1861, peasants in Russia, as it turned out, rested more than they worked, due to the presence of many holidays, on which work was just as forbidden as it was to work on Sundays. The number of Sundays in the year, of course, did not increase. But the number

“Vyacheslav Olegovich! Once again I suggest you use publications in modern media as examples of the "poisoned pen". In order not to go far, take a scientific skating rink on articles from VO. Sometimes you read some regular authors and some aftertaste remains

Francisco Pradilla. The surrender of Granada to Their Spanish Majesties Isabella and Ferdinand A triumphant procession filled with sincere triumph entered the conquered city, surrendering to the mercy of the victors. Trumpets and drums with a pompous roar drove out the eastern tranquility of the streets

He was not a hero, not a knight, but the leader of a robbery gang. Heine. "Witzliputsli". The VO website has already published a number of articles, which talked about how the Aztecs fought with other Indians and Spanish conquistadors. But the latter were spoken of only in passing, while how exactly they

“A slave threw himself at the feet of a certain nobleman. He told that he had met Death at the bazaar, who threatened him with a finger, and began to beg the master to give him a horse. The slave decided to escape from Death by escaping to the city of Samarra. The nobleman gave the slave a horse, and he ran away, and the next day he went to the market and

Among the materials of the VO site there are a large number of articles, the authors of which, reporting, in general, interesting information, do not tend to indicate their source. And in principle, by and large, this is not required, because these are journalistic, not scientific publications. However, in some cases

As you know, the shape of a helmet to protect the head was created not even for centuries - for millennia. And during this time, people have come up with many different types of "head cover". However, no matter how hard they try, at the heart of the helmet has always been and will remain a certain container, which just closes its part

Each source of information about the past is of great value to humanity. Especially if these are written sources. After all, the information contained in them allows you to literally look into that distant time. Even so, the sources have different values. For example, Luttrell's Psalter

Last time we got acquainted with the Cathedral of Barcelona, but this is, let's say, not the most famous object of the cult architecture of this city. The most is, of course, the Temple of the Sagrada Familia, the name of which sounds like this: the Atonement Temple of the Sagrada Familia. And this

The first article, dedicated to the content of the Penza Martyrology, was mainly about male priests and nuns, who were often shot for distributing religious books and "agitation", and in a country whose constitution did not forbid freedom of conscience, but was

There are castles that are famous for their history, there are castles that are striking in their size, there are castles glorified by famous novelists, and there are castles that are simply beautiful … thanks to popular movies. One of

The theme of the Knights of War of the Scarlet and White Rose aroused a keen interest of VO readers. In the three previous articles, we tried to cover, whenever possible, all sides of this conflict. Today we publish the latest material on this topic … The knights who fought with each other during the war of the Scarlet and White Roses had

You need to start the story about Montserrat … with “target designation”. That is, it is located only 50 kilometers northwest of Barcelona, and since the roads there are excellent, it is essentially very close. If we translate this name from the Catalan language, then it will mean “split (or sawn)

From the very first days of the war, Pravda began publishing materials about the successful military operations of the Red Army pilots, often accompanied by photographs 15, p. 2. For greater reliability, the main events of the air battles were retold from the first person, that is, by the pilots of the Red Army. And that's what they are

It should be noted that the yacht "Shtandart" was distinguished by a very high level of comfort, but at the same time, not at all to the detriment of comfort, she also had high seaworthiness and was rightly considered the best yacht of this class in the world of such vessels. In the book of the American writer Robert Massa "Nikolai and

Articles about medieval cuisine aroused genuine interest in VO and … a wide variety of proposals. One is more interesting than the other. Tell about the cuisine of ALL ancient civilizations … Tell about the cuisine of ancient Russia … the Vikings … Tell about table etiquette and customs, tell about … In a word, for me to

The VO readers found the previous materials on this topic interesting. Today we are continuing it, especially since the next issue of the Japanese Armor Modeling magazine has come out, and in it the continuation of the story about shishimono and its fastening, as well as other types of Japanese identity - there is where, that

This material is, in some sense, an anniversary one. According to the VO account, it is the 800th, that is, the next "round number". As always, by the "holiday" I would like to write about something unusual, leaving aside the tanks - another publishing house again demands a book about them, they say, "there are never too many tanks", rifles, knights (according to

Of course, the capabilities of the medieval table were directly dependent on agriculture - plant growing and animal husbandry. That is, it is difficult to eat sturgeons where there is no Volga, and, accordingly, grape wine is constantly there, where grapes do not grow. Klyuchevsky said for a reason that