History 2024, November

Equestrian fight. The bas-relief depicts a battle between the Ionian Greeks and the Galatians, with the victory being won by the Greeks. On it we see a Greek rider in armor, whose horse jumps over a fallen Galata, and on the left, a foot Galatian is trying to cover himself with a shield. Another Galat falls from a horse upside down

The weapon of the Turkish horsemen of the 17th century. On the left are two sabers gaddare (Pers.), Or fell (Tur.). They differed in a relatively short (65-75 cm), but wide (5-5.5 cm) blade, and had a thick (up to 1 cm) butt. Some blades (including those in the photo) had a yelman, but its width was small. Stick with

"Fight of a cuirassier with a dragoon." Artist Peter Möhlener. (Prado Museum, Madrid) It is believed that with regard to the composition of his battle paintings, he was inferior to his teacher Peter Snyers, who portrayed the battles in the form of whole panoramas, while Möhlener took individual episodes from them. However, for historians

Anatoly Shepelyuk. Mikhail Kutuzov during the Battle of Borodino. 1952 How difficult, how difficult it is for people of small stature! We do not fit according to GOST In the generally accepted size. But we are all Napoleons! There are millions of us in the world! And in our country, every micron One is like Gulliver! " Evgeniya TkalichThis

Tank T-72V3M “I served and operated both of these vehicles and I will say that this is not so. The T-62 was a dead end in development, and it could not surpass the T-55 in any … specified indicator.”Svp67 (Sergey) The designers tell. It just so happened historically that at one time I was invited to edit one of

This is how the files of the city committee of the CPSU (b) of the city of Penza look like. The region did not exist then, it did not exist: the Penza region was recently merged with the Tambov region Only reproach, pride, the discovery of secrets and insidious … Book of Sirakh 22:25 History and documents. So, we continue our acquaintance with the documents

This is what he is, "Night Watch" by Rembrandt van Rijn. And then he looked around. You have the right to look at others only after taking a good look at yourself. And in succession, pharmacists, soldiers, rat-catchers, usurers, writers, merchants went before him - Holland looked at him like in the mirror. And the mirror managed to rightly - and

"Sentry with dogs". In the center there is an officer in a tunic (a caftan made of thin leather), which was worn under a cuirass, but it is very difficult to say who all the others are. That is, maybe they are soldiers, but they look more like tramps warming themselves by the fire. Rabble rabble, and those are present at all

Battle of Grandson 1476 "Chronicle of Diebold Schilling" (Central Library, Lucerne) Historical battles. Fights between knights and knights or knights with infantry are always interesting. It's excitingly interesting, especially if we imagine how such battles took place. Imagine you

Light cavalry mints. How could a lightly armed rider defeat a man at arms, if even a spear was powerless against their new heavy-duty armor? But with such "war hammers" with a sharp beak, they could still be pierced! (City Museum of Meissen) “Take your shield and armor and rise to the rescue

Appearance of a filing with the numbers of the newspaper "Pravda" for 1940. Alas, more and more often you come across the fact that old paper materials become worthless "Swear and testify, but do not divulge secrets." Material "Newspaper" Pravda "about the Soviet-Finnish

The painting "The Dice Game", which very accurately depicts the appearance of the equestrian soldiers of the middle of the 17th century. It is located in the Penza Art Gallery. K.A. Savitsky One day Bosch took me to a tavern. The thick candle in it barely flickered. The throaty executioners walked in it, Shamelessly boasting of their craft. Bosch

At the forefront of the units of the 100th rifle division of the Red Army on the Karelian Isthmus Curls of pine trees along the slopes Borderline stingy horizon. Take us, Suomi, beauty, In a necklace of transparent lakes! Tanks break wide glades, Airplanes circle in the clouds, Low sun in the fall

Fight of the German battleship "Admiral Graf Spee" with British ships. Rice. the contemporary artist “A wicked man, a wicked man walks with deceitful lips, blinks his eyes, speaks with his feet, gives signs with his fingers; deceit in his heart: he designs evil at all times, sows

The author with a wheel pistol in his hand (right view) in the hall of the Penza Museum of Local Lore. It turned out that it is not heavy at all and is very comfortable to hold, despite its great length. “Gentlemen, you are getting involved in a bad story and will be riddled with bullets. My servant and I will treat you with three shots

The newspaper with which our story will begin Neither fools nor foolish hack writers Confuse your hearts anymore. They have taken away your homeland more than once - We have come to return it to you. Words: Anatoly D'Aktil (Frenkel), music: Daniel and Dmitry Pokrass History in documents. Not so long ago, "VO" hosted a series of articles devoted to

Military affairs at the turn of the eras. Everyone knows about the influence of war on the development of military affairs. Imagine that the warriors and military affairs of the beginning of the Hundred Years War and its end were very different. However, there was another war in Europe, which was also very long, and it also greatly influenced

Magnificent saddle circa 1455 of King Ladislav Postum ("Posthumous") (1440 - 1457) - King of Bohemia from 1453, King of Hungary from May 15 to July 17, 1440 (1st time) (coronation on May 15, 1440) and from May 30, 1445 (2nd time) (under the name Laszlo V), and Duke of Austria from December 22, 1440, the last

The most beautiful knightly armor in the world is the ceremonial armor of King Eric XIV of Sweden, c. 1565 The decor of the armor is extraordinarily luxurious, containing six scenes from the Trojan War and the myth of the Argonauts. On horse armor in medallions, all twelve labors of Hercules are represented. Chasing armor

Armor for children is rare. And you need to get rich on rarities, as the chief commerce advisor of the Snow Queen said, and he was absolutely right! Many firms produce figurines of men and women dressed in knightly armor. Nobody releases figurines of armored children !!! But for them

This is a "soldier" so a "soldier"! With a "capital letter" and itself is very large. That is why all the details of his equipment are made very carefully and look very realistic. Each figurine has a very nice box with several equipment options and a stand

Wheeled pistol: a weapon that created a new branch of troops in Europe - pistol cavalry. Pistols made for noble people got off very richly. Sometimes the surface of the tree was simply not visible behind all kinds of inlays. (Imperial Arsenal, Vienna) “… and the cavalry was divided into two

Armored infantrymen of the 16th century from Ambras Castle, Austria. It is obvious that this Hundred Years War so decisively advanced the art of war and the skill of gunsmiths. Already a hundred years after its end, not only cavalry, but also infantry acquired armor in massive quantities

Armor for rennen. Modern reconstruction based on one of the tournament armor of Emperor Maximilian I (Vienna Armory) People and weapons. Interestingly, Maximilian from the very beginning showed himself to be energetic and enterprising, unlike his father, the indecisive Frederick III. Understood

View of the city of Graz and the Schlosberg mountain. The city is old, very beautiful, there are few tourists in it, and you can also ride on a free municipal tram

Drawing by Peter Dennis, which at first could be mistaken for an illustration for the Battle of Little Bighorn, if not for the absence of Caster's figure in the center and the signature "The last stronghold at the White Bird Canyon" , Blue

“For what good is it to a man if he gains the whole world, but damages his soul?” Gospel of Matthew 16:26 Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg. Portrait by Albrecht Dürer (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) People and weapons. Probably, among people interested in knightly armor and weapons, as well as

Our cannons are thundering, bayonets are shining! A good toy, a cheap toy - a soldier's box. Olga Berggolts. March of the Tin Soldiers This smaller, smaller world. It just so happened that people from planet Earth at all times tried for some reason to make copies of themselves, both enlarged and

In iron mail and brass helmets on their heads. The First Book of Maccabees 6:35 Warriors of Eurasia. Like the Western European knights, the military art of the Mamluks was the art of horsemen, as its very name suggests: furusiyya, from the Arabic word for "phar" - horse. In Italian, the horse is "caval"

This is the great Van Gogh. - Which is great, of course. But is it Van Gogh? Dialogue from the film "How to Steal a Million" Military Museums of Europe. Finally, the time was given to talk about the long-promised, namely, the determination of the authenticity of ancient weapons and armor. Indeed, for some reason, very

Where the mountains, running away, In the light stretch the distance, The notorious Danube eternal streams are pouring. For a month I listened, the waves sang … And, looming from the steep mountains, The castles of the knights looked with sweet horror at them. Fyodor Tyutchev Military museums of Europe. The arsenal of the Hovburg castle in Vienna or the Vienna Imperial Arsenal are not the only ones

Around the sea of abusive armor is agitated, and the cavalry among them is steep to match the hill, will fill all the hollows, and the terrain will be leveled, and the mountains will be strung like beads on a braid. I will understand their letter. '' He raised his lion's paws above the chain mail, and the army listens

"Fight on the path of Allah with those who fight against you, but do not overstep the boundaries of what is permitted." The publication of articles from the cycle "Knights and Chivalry of Three Ages" aroused great interest among those site visitors who are interested in the topic of military affairs

I am awake during the day, and I sleep in the saddle at night, Inseparable with a steel shirt, Tested chain mail, Woven by a Daud hand. Arab poet Abu-t-Tayyib ibn al-Hussein al-Jufi (915-965) Knights and chivalry of three centuries. The last time material about the warriors of this period was published on "VO"

For a horse with a terrible rider appeared to them. The second book of Maccabees 3:25 Military museums of Europe. Last time we looked at dummies of riders in armor and on horseback, exhibited in various museums. And, probably, the history of each such "exhibit" (if you delve into it, of course!) Will be

Like a giant lily, you are conceived From the sea of blue, whose abyss has guarded Your houses, palaces, your temple, your sails, And solar power, and knightly attire. Henry Longfellow. Venice. Translated by V.V. Levik, Military Museums of Europe. In hall 2 of the Armory of the Doge's Palace there is a very interesting trophy: a triangular

The cavalry rushes, the sword flashes, and the spears glisten; there are many killed and heaps of corpses: there is no end to corpses, they stumble over their corpses. Book of Prophet Nahum 3: 3 Military museums of Europe. In Europe, and in the United States too, there are many museums, the theme of which allows them to be attributed to the military. However, us today

O swan of cities, water and sun, brother, asleep, as in a nest, among the reeds, among the silt of the Lagoon that nurtured and raised you, As all historians and guests say. Henry Longfellow. Venice. Translated by V.V. Levik, Military Museums of Europe. Probably, it just so happened in the course of historical development that in each

Gathering the same weapons for them and removing the armor from the enemies … The second book of Maccabees 8:27) Military museums in Europe. We continue to get acquainted with the collection of armor and weapons exhibited in the Vienna Imperial Arsenal, and today we will again have the armor of the "sunset era". That is, those that appeared after 1500

“Suppose you have two apples in your pocket. Someone took one apple from you. How many apples do you have left?”“Two.”“Think well. Buratino grimaced - he thought so well. N. Tolstoy. The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio