History 2024, November

But then a problem arose with the individual identification of the samurai. How to find out which of them is who, if all of them, for example, are fighting under one or ten nobori, and the whole army is marching under the banners of traditional khata-jirushi? The solution was found in placing a flag with a monom behind the back of a samurai! Such a checkbox

Already in ancient times, namely in the Paleolithic era, people developed three groups of mystical beliefs that entered all the main religions of the world - animism, totemism and magic. "My soul sings!" - this is animism, the names Volkov, Sinitsyn, Kobylin - totemism, well, the well-known student "freebie come"

It is not so often that a person falls into the hands of a set of documents that allows tracing a particular historical event in detail. Why? Because even those documents collected in the archive are still scattered. In addition, there are a lot of them, and they are often written in a clumsy handwriting and in yellowed

Since February 17, 2015, when my first article appeared on "VO", a lot of materials on a variety of topics have been published here. Among them, the knightly theme occupied a very important place, which is not surprising. After all, I started doing it in 1995. And since then he has not published about the knights and their weapons

"The flight of the people from the state power constituted the entire content of the people's history of Russia." Sokolsky March 23, 2017 marks exactly 26 years since the death of Friedrich August von Hayek (1899 - 1992) - the great Austrian economist, philosopher, public figure and Nobel laureate

Previous articles in this series described how our newspapers described the heavy proportion of Germans in Germany who ate whale meat and sawdust margarine. But immediately after our troops entered the territory of Germany, for some reason it suddenly turned out that the German citizens were by no means

The problem of identifying friends and foes on the battlefield has always been very acute. At the beginning of the "chain mail era" in Europe, for example, people came out onto the battlefields, dressed from head to toe in gray-red armor, almost all of them were identical, and how could you recognize someone in this mass? At the Battle of Hastings in

The main task of the Soviet periodicals at all levels during the Great Patriotic War was to raise and strengthen the morale of the citizens of the USSR, to instill in the minds of people the hope of a quick victory over the enemy and the conviction of the invincible combat capability of our army, to form

Did people play sports in the Middle Ages? Of course we did! Competition is in people's blood. And besides, it was necessary to prepare for war. English peasants learned from childhood to shoot a bow. And first the boy had to learn to stand, holding in his outstretched hand … a stone. Easy at first

Our life is an interesting thing. For example, you come somewhere and think that you will learn one thing, but you will learn something completely different, and even something that you would never have known about otherwise. So this happened to me last summer, when I, together with a group of tourists from Russia, found myself in an old Polish city

About the further events that followed these, the historian N.I. Kostomarov wrote. in his monograph "The Last Years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" it is said: "Igelstrom sent General Denisov, who stopped at

So we finally got to the castle of the opponents of the lords of Castelnau - the castle of Beinac. The place on which it stands - a high limestone rock about a hundred meters in height, unequivocally speaks of its attractiveness. Remember the Russian folk tale: "I stand high, I look far away!" That's exactly how it is

In previous materials, it was already mentioned that in the upper reaches of the Volga and in the area of the Volga-Oka interfluve in the Bronze Age, tribes lived there from the upper reaches of the Dnieper. In the places of their settlement there are the so-called Fatyanovo burial grounds. Obviously, in the forest areas of the Upper

We have many people who like to speculate about how little, they say, in our country today is being done to educate the younger generation. There are no school clubs, no children's technical creativity centers, no dancing, no songs, no swimming, no kart racing - nothing! Continuous gateways

For a long time we have not addressed the topic of publications in Soviet newspapers of the period of the 30-40s of the last century, that is, to the materials of the "Poisoned Pen" series. For those who see the material of this series for the first time, let us explain that the speech in them, using examples from a number of Russian pre-revolutionary newspapers and Soviet

So what would you think, seeing on the streets of your city a demonstration of … 30,000 women carrying posters with the inscription: "Provo to vote for women" and loudly singing "The battle anthem of the republic" - "Glory, glory, hallelujah!" At least you would be very surprised. But the men on the streets were also surprised by this

Among the visitors to the VO site there are many people interested in ancient technologies, and this is understandable. And we try to satisfy their curiosity as much as possible: we contact the craftsmen who use ancient technologies and make excellent replicas of the same products of the Bronze Age. One such master Dave

The previous publication, dedicated to the culture of the Bronze Age, caused a lot of positive responses from VO readers. Today we continue this theme … As for the culture of the inhabitants of mountainous Iran and Central Asia at the end of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. e., then it remained Eneolithic, but changes in

My acquaintance with the medieval knight's castle took place long before school: for the first time I saw it in the picture in the "Book for reading on the history of the Middle Ages" edited by Professor S.D. Skazkin 1953 edition. It was somewhere in 1960, and maybe even earlier. These books were used by my

When the Messires from the Castle of Castelnau decided to feud with the barons from the Castle of Beinac, they, of course, could not even think about what would happen 800 years later, and dreamed of only one thing: how to gain more supporters and, having piled up with all their might, to overcome their opponents … View of Beynak Castle and

And the Eastern Slavs, and Armenians, and Anatolians - all have an Aryan ancestor Let's consider one more question: But what about the Caucasus, Anatolia, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula as possible ancestral home of the Aryans, the genus R1a, the Proto-Slavs? Let's see. Armenia. The age of the common ancestor of the genus R1a is 4400 years ago. Small

Almost everyone knows about American supplies to the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. The "Studebakers" and the American stew, nicknamed "the second front" by the Soviet soldiers, immediately pop up in my memory. But these are, rather, artistic and emotional symbols, which are actually the pinnacle

Viktor Petrovich Astafiev (years of life 05/01/1924 - 11/29/2001) - Soviet and Russian writer, prose writer, essayist, most of whose works are made in the genre of military and village prose. He is one of the galaxy of writers who have made a very great contribution to the development of Russian literature. Astafiev

First published in: Military-Historical Archive. 2012, no. 9. Pp. 59−71 There is a mass of literature on this problem, and maybe someone gets the impression that it has been sufficiently researched. Yes, indeed, there is a lot of literature, but many questions and doubts remain. Too many here

Well, finally, I again grasped my favorite theme of museums after the winter break. And I decided to start with a wonderful monument to Russian engineering work - the fifth fort of the Brest fortress. When we hear the familiar and familiar words "Hero-Fortress Brest", we inevitably rise before our eyes

Episode two. An attempt to create a people's enterprise and concentrate in it the commercial incomes withdrawn from the State Enterprise ORTPTs. In the early 90s, the first elements of the commercialization of the activities of the then socialist state enterprises appeared. Due to the sharp contraction and breakdown

In the post-Soviet era, the idea of "the excessive cost of Victory" was insistently introduced into the mass consciousness, that the human losses of the Red Army "in the overwhelming majority of battles were many times greater than the German ones." This primarily applies to the Moscow defensive operation (September 30 - 5

April 26 marks thirty years since the terrible date for our country and other former republics of the Soviet Union - the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The world remembers the consequences of this tragedy and "reaps" to this day. From the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around a nuclear power plant

The world today, after a fairly long period of nuclear disarmament, is once again returning step by step to Cold War-style rhetoric and nuclear intimidation. In addition to the well-known nuclear tensions on the Korean Peninsula, similar tensions seem to be returning to Europe. V

I must say right away that such a question was not directly asked. I asked it myself, and I will answer it myself. And the reason was the comment of our visitor from Israel, known as the "professor". In the comment (deleted in accordance with the rules of the site), in addition to everything, there was a phrase in relation to I.V

In 1904, the Russian inventor Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev received a new material - tarpaulin: a canvas cloth soaked in a mixture of paraffin, rosin and egg yolk. The properties of the new, very cheap material very much resembled leather: it did not allow moisture to pass through, but at the same time it breathed. True, the appointment

June 22, 1941. Germany is bombing Kiev, surrounding Minsk, and is about to burst into Moscow … Everything went to that, quilted jackets and savages cannot resist a cultural nation. There is no army, no navy, no planes fly. And all these red chiefs: Zhukovs, Shaposhnikovs … They promised to die, but not to surrender to the enemy

In the literature dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812, the word "partisan" is certainly found. Imagination, as a rule, slips the corresponding picture: a bearded man hooking a French "musyu" on a pitchfork. Such a peasant did not know any "upper" superiors over himself and did not know

From the editor. The history of the Cold War has yet to be written. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles are devoted to this phenomenon, and yet the Cold War remains in many ways a terra incognita, or, more precisely, a territory of myths. Documents are being declassified that make you look differently at seemingly well-known

Hero of Russia, Colonel Vladimir Vladimirovich Nedobezhkin reports: - For me, the events associated with the breakthrough of militants from the village of Pervomaiskoye began on January 11, 1996. At this time, a detachment of army special forces, which I commanded, was in Khankala (the headquarters of the group of Russian troops in Chechnya

Under Soviet rule, the Bolsheviks tried to appropriate the "paternity" of the February Revolution for themselves. The proletariat “acted as the hegemon and the main driving force of the February bourgeois-democratic revolution. He led the national movement against war and tsarism, led the peasantry

After the end of World War II, specialists from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense took part in a huge number of secret operations, many of which led to the death of leaders of various countries and political movements, as well as the receipt of top-secret materials about plans and a new

On September 21, Russia celebrates the Day of Military Glory of Russia - the Day of the Victory of Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. glory and memorable dates

At the end of the summer of 1709, in the small village of Varnitsa near Bendery, the former hetman of Ukraine Ivan Mazepa (Koledinsky) was dying in terrible agony. He was constantly losing his mind from unbearable, hellish pains resulting from dozens of incurable diseases. And, regaining consciousness, after a long ridiculous muttering

This article is unique, as it tells in detail about the activities of the units of the Polish Home Army on the territory of the Belarusian Polesie, about its largest structure in that region - the 47th Brest contour of the AK or better known under the unofficial name “Basta gang”. The article was written based on