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Those interested in the history of the Russian fleet are well aware of the caricatured image of Ch. Crump, derived in a number of sources, where the American shipbuilder is presented as an energetic businessman who came to St. Petersburg for profit with grandiose plans. After visiting the participation in the upcoming international
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At the end of April 1904, at a special meeting chaired by Emperor Nicholas II, it was decided to include the battleship Navarin, which was being repaired and partially modernized in Kronstadt, into the 2nd Pacific squadron. Due to the forced reduction in the time allotted for implementation
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Dying "Szent István" (newsreel frame) Since 1939, Navy Day in Italy has been celebrated on June 10, on the anniversary of the sinking of the Austrian battleship Szent István during the First World War. This event, forcing the command of the Austrian fleet to cancel the planned large-scale operation
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German paratroopers are landing on the island of Crete under enemy fire. On May 20, 1941, 80 years ago, German troops invaded Crete. Strategic Operation Mercury became one of the brightest amphibious operations of the Second World War. The Germans captured the island by airborne assault
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In Ukraine, the thesis is widespread that the Nazis, who were not shy in their methods, forced S. Bandera, who was thrown into the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, to cancel the "Act of Proclamation of the Ukrainian State", but the head of the OUN did not submit to the monsters even after the death of his two brothers, who experienced
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Entry of Alexander Nevsky to Pskov after the Battle on the Ice. V.A.Serov. 1945 800th anniversary of the birth of the Russian prince Alexander Yaroslavich. Prince Alexander Nevsky is one of the most prominent figures in our history. And connects the most different and dissimilar epochs
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The extreme northeast of China, hanging over the Korean Peninsula and bordering in the north with Russia, and in the southwest with Mongolia, has long been inhabited by local Tungus-Manchu peoples, in addition to the Chinese. The largest of them are the Manchus up to the present time. Ten millionth
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The Japanese Empire, which showed great interest in the coastal and northeastern regions of China, took advantage of the 1930s. the weakening of the "Celestial Empire", torn apart by internal contradictions, and partially occupied the Chinese territory. In the north and northeast of China, two formally
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It all began with the statement of Lord Balfour in 1918: "The new anti-Bolshevik administrations grew up under the cover of the allied forces, and we are responsible for their existence and must make efforts to support them." The statement had purely pragmatic reasons - property
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Formation After the Crimean War, the Russian fleet on the Black Sea was destroyed. In the Baltic, the handsome sailing ships have lost their military significance. And the problem of relations with England has not gone anywhere. A new fleet was needed - a steam one. And new ships - steamers capable of cruising in the ocean for a long time
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Any heroic deed always has moral, propaganda and military aspects. And there is nowhere to get away from this: this is how people and the world are arranged. Even the designation of the "S-13" strike as the attack of the century carries all three elements. If from a military point of view and for the twentieth century, I would still call the attacks of the century drowning
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General outline All the same, it is worth starting with the global - with those responsible for preparing for war. Directly the commander-in-chief was a certain Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov, who calls himself the Master of the Russian Land. General Kuropatkin was responsible for the army, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich was responsible for the fleet, and
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Ivan Nikolaevich The founder of the dynasty of sailors in the Butakov family was Ivan Nikolaevich Butakov, born on June 24, 1776. After graduating from the Marine Corps, Ivan got to the Baltic Fleet, where in 1790 he took part in the Krasnogorsk and Vyborg battles in the rank of midshipman on the battleship Vseslav
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Ancient Russia At the dawn of Russian history, there were no, strictly speaking, Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, and any textbook will tell you about tribal unions, like the Volynians or Vyatichi, about the beginning of the formation of their statehood. And about the Varangians, they are Vikings, they are normal. It is from these elements
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The Hetmanate The wars subsided, the Right Bank and Volhynia were harshly bent over by the Poles with unions and other serfdom, and the Cossack state, the Hetmanate, remained on the left bank. Although it did not remain Cossack for long. And again, it's not about ordinary Cossacks, it's about the foreman - leadership, both military and civil
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And it sounds in all - a terrible tragedy, miscalculations, unprofessionalism, stupidity, the wrong choice of the route … As for me, it was a tragedy when 83.6% of the servicemen involved in the operation died in the Smolensk battle, and that one with signs of optimism - during this time we prepared for the defense of Moscow. it
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First view: Soviet tragedies “There is reason to believe that the submarine was lost at great depths. Due to the fact that there is no reliable data on the reasons for the death of the "S-117", one can only guess about the circumstances of the death of the submarine. Death could occur during the following
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The stories about the disproportionately large losses of the Red Army in 1941-1945 have long become a kind of base on which the myths about the inferiority of the Soviet people in general and the state in particular are piled up. And these myths are dangerous. The stories about the filling up of corpses do not hit the communist ideology, not the
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In the history of the Great Patriotic War, unfortunately, there were many examples of the betrayal of Soviet citizens - military and civilians, who went over to the service of the enemy. Someone made their choice out of hatred of the Soviet political system, someone was guided by considerations of personal gain, having fallen into
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After the outbreak of the Civil War, the Spanish Republican fleet found itself in a difficult situation - having in its composition a sufficient number of ships, it lost most of the officers who supported Franco. And this personnel gap was closed by Soviet specialists - pilots, tankmen, sailors
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1904 By the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, Sakhalin Island was practically defenseless against an external invasion. Moreover, they did not think much about his protection. Although against the background of Kamchatka, which was not prepared to defend at all, Sakhalin looks almost like a fortress. 1,500 people with six guns, absence
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That now forgotten tragedy shook the Russian Empire no less than the death of the Kursk Russian Federation. A terrible event - in peacetime, a combat ship died with the entire crew. Not that this has not happened before - it happened: there was an explosion at the Plastun clipper in 1860, with 75 dead
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The current negative attitude towards Japan from China, North Korea and South Korea is mainly due to the fact that Japan has not punished most of its war criminals. Many of them continued to live and work in the Land of the Rising Sun, as well as to occupy positions of responsibility. Even those who
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If you love looking at pictures from the past, then you will appreciate this collection. These pictures captured the life of people who lived in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, in the Yenisei province. 1. Cheldon peasants in Krasnoyarsk The photograph and the negative arrived at the museum in
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Until now, we mainly talked about the combat properties of knightly medieval armor and only casually talked about their artistic decoration. Now is the time to pay attention to their aesthetics and, above all, to their color. For example, knightly armor was called "white" if it represented
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Mario goes to rob the bank! “Robbery by …” Partisan Meat In 2007, in one of the restaurants in Crete, we were served by an Armenian waiter who offered me a meat dish called “kleftiko”. To my question "what is this?" he replied that it was lamb according to a partisan recipe and told the following story. In
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Among the reasons for the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, many historians, including very respectable ones, name the unsuccessful choice of the main base for the Russian Pacific Fleet. Namely - Port Arthur. They say that it is located unsuccessfully, and in itself is inconvenient, and in general … But how did it happen that of the multitude
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More than a century ago, the battles of the Russo-Japanese War died down, but disputes about it still do not subside. How could it happen that a small island state utterly defeated a huge and powerful empire before? No, of course, there have been defeats in the history of Russia before, but I'm not afraid of that
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Another reason for Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War is the condition of its fleet. Moreover, everything is criticized, from ship designs to the personnel training system. And, of course, goes to the naval command, who, in the opinion of many critics, showed simply epic incompetence
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Rurik … "How much of this sound has merged for the Russian heart …" In this article I do not want to go all over again, proving the Norman origin of the founder of the ruling dynasty of the Old Russian state. Enough has been said about this. And nothing new on this issue in
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In the previous article, we examined the methods of work of the strategic intelligence of the Mongol Empire. Let's try to analyze what the Russian princes knew about the impending war and the likely enemy on the eve of the invasion. So, in 1235, at the general kurultai of the leaders of the Mongol Empire
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Rurik. Perhaps we will hardly be able to find at least one more hero in our history, about whose personality, deeds and significance for our history pundits would argue for so long and fiercely. Normanism and Anti-Normanism In 2035, we can rightfully celebrate three hundred years since the beginning of this dispute and in
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Rurik. In the last article, we described the historical setting in which Rurik had to act. It's time to go directly to the main character of our research. Chronicles about Rurik About Rurik himself in the Russian chronicles there is very little information. Here is a lengthy quote from "The Tale of Temporary
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Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, Prince of Pereyaslavl, Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, Novgorod, Grand Duke of Kiev and Vladimir is a remarkable personality in all respects. Determined and aggressive, energetic and enterprising, irreconcilable with enemies, loyal to allies, in achieving
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On April 15, 1212, in his capital city of Vladimir, after thirty-six years of reign, Vsevolod Yuryevich the Big Nest, the Grand Duke of Vladimir, died. Vsevolod was buried in the Vladimir Assumption Cathedral next to the brothers Andrei Bogolyubsky and Mikhail. The funeral was attended by all the "chicks
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In the spring of 1228, Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, while in Novgorod, began to prepare a global campaign against the most important center of the crusading movement in the Eastern Baltic - against the city of Riga. One should not think that at that time Riga at least somehow resembled modern Riga. In 1228 Riga was not yet
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The fall of St. George's and the death of Prince Vyachko in 1224 at the hands of the Germans did not make a depressing impression on Russian contemporaries. The annals speak of this event as, of course, sad, but insignificant. The attention of the chroniclers was distracted by the battle on Kalka, which took place a year earlier, an event
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Finally, completing this small study devoted to the hypothesis of the Slavic origin of the ancestor of the first Russian princely dynasty, it is necessary to mention one find that took place during an archaeological expedition to the Zemlyanoy settlement of Staraya Ladoga in 2008. V
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In 1217, Mstislav Mstislavich Udatny, having received news of the repeated occupation of Galich by the Hungarians, convened a veche in Novgorod, at which he announced his intention to “look for Galich,” resigned, despite the persuasions of the Novgorodians, the powers of the Novgorod prince and departed south. In its place, the Novgorodians
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It is assumed that Yaroslav went to the headquarters of the great khan with two purposes: to confirm his ownership rights and as a personal representative of Batu Khan at the great kurultai, assembled for the sake of electing a new khan to replace the deceased Ogedei. In any case, someone else instead of himself at the kurultai, where