History 2024, November

S. Ivanov. The army of the impostor. During the struggle between the troops of Tsar Vasily Shuisky and the Bolotnikovites, a new impostor appeared - False Dmitry II, who was a puppet of the Polish gentry. A new stage of the Troubles began, which was now accompanied by open Polish intervention. The Polish-Lithuanian gentry actively supported

We have such dates in Russia that the country does not mark. And he doesn't even remember. These are the dates of the tragic mistakes of the military and / or political leadership. Such blunders are especially costly in the fight against terrorists. We believe that such failures should be especially kept in mind. And disassemble them in detail

"Three foggy days …" Since 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte has been preparing an invasion of England. He believed that "three foggy days" would give the French ships the opportunity to elude the British and land on the shores of England. Did the British believe in the possible success of the French? Undoubtedly. If from the very beginning

The Ozel became a legend in the Polish navy. Her daring escape from internment was made famous by the Polish war reporter Erik Sopočko. The ORP Orzeł (Oryol) was the only fully operational submarine in the Polish navy in 1939. Her twin

Engraving by S. Shiflyar "Storming of Ishmael on December 11 (22), 1790". View from the river side. Made according to the watercolor drawing of the battle-painter M. M. Ivanov An impregnable fortress During the campaign of 1790, Russian troops besieged Izmail, the largest and most powerful Turkish fortress on the Danube. It was an important knot

The battle banner of the Struga rebel detachment (Ilinden uprising) Macedonia fell into the sphere of Ottoman influence in the second half of the 14th century. On September 26, 1371, near the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen, the Ottoman army of Lala Shahin Pasha attacked the troops of Vukashin Mrnyavchevich Prilepsky and his brother Joan

By mid-October 1914, a positional front had been established practically on the entire Western Front. In connection with the capture of Antwerp, the German command had new goals - to seize the Pas-de-Calais coast to threaten Great Britain. The new German commander-in-chief Erich von Falkenhain believed that

100 years ago, on December 9 (22), 1914, the Sarikamysh battle began. The Turkish commander-in-chief Enver Pasha, a student of the German military school and a big fan of German doctrine, planned to conduct a deep roundabout maneuver and destroy the Russian Caucasian army with one powerful blow

200 years ago, on March 20-21, 1814, the battle of Arsy-sur-Aube took place. In a meeting battle, the Allied main army under the command of the Austrian field marshal Schwarzenberg threw back Napoleon's army across the Aub river in the town of Arsi and moved to Paris. The Battle of Arcy-sur-Auba was the final battle

The battles on the Vistula from October 2 to 6, the Austro-German armies approached the Middle Vistula and the mouth of the San. The Russian cover units withdrew to the Vistula, and then across the river. Novikov's cavalry withstood a series of enemy attacks, General Delsal's group (three brigades) fought a stubborn battle with three times the

On March 4, 1944, the 1st Ukrainian Front went on the offensive under the command of Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. The Proskurov-Chernivtsi offensive operation began, one of the largest front-line operations of the Great Patriotic War. As Zhukov recalled: here a fierce

Peter I Karageorgievich after the coronationIn the previous article (Dragutin Dmitrievich and his "Black Hand") we talked about the tragic end of the history of the Serbian princely and royal dynasty Obrenovici. The dramatic events of June 11, 1903 were also told, when during the night assault

The most ancient state on the territory of the Crimean and Taman peninsulas is the Bosporan Kingdom. Founded by Greek settlers, it existed for almost a thousand years - from the end of the 5th century BC. NS. and disappeared only in the VI century A.D. Despite the fact that the northern borders of the Black Sea at that time

The success of Svyatoslav's Khazar campaign made a huge impression on Constantinople. In general, the Byzantines were not against the defeat of Khazaria from Russia, as they pursued their policy on the principle of “divide and rule”. In some periods, Byzantium supported Khazaria, helped her build powerful stone

London Straits Convention. Attempt to reach a diplomatic agreement between Russia and England Nikolai Pavlovich, despite the tough policy of Palmerston, still tried to achieve a diplomatic agreement between Russia and England on the "sick man". By the time 1841 approached

Beginning of hostilities After the failure of the Prague negotiations and the announcement of the end of the armistice, a moratorium on crossing the demarcation line and the outbreak of hostilities was to be observed within six days. However, the Silesian army under the command of the Prussian general Blucher violated this condition

And how well it all started Born in Austria-Hungary, on the very border with neighboring Germany, Hitler grew up in a very decent family. No, he certainly did not look like a Jewish boy with a violin and only fives. As well as the offspring of a contented and well-fed bourgeois. But the ground is solid

On August 14 (26), 1813, on the Katzbach River (now the Kachava River) in Silesia, a battle took place between the allied (Russian-Prussian) Silesian army under the command of the Prussian general Gebgard Lembrecht Blucher and the French army under the command of Marshal Jacques MacDonald. This battle is over

One of the controversial figures in Russian history is Prince Ivan I Danilovich Kalita (c. 1283 - March 31, 1340 or 1341). Some researchers consider him the creator, the man of which he laid the foundation of the Moscow state. Others call him a traitor to Russian interests, a renegade prince

The past New Year holidays brought not only joy, but also the loss of three wonderful people, outstanding air fighters, Heroes of the Soviet Union - Fedor Fedorovich Archipenko (1921-2012), Alexei Alekseevich Postnov (1915-2013) and Evgeny Georgievich Pepelyaev (1918-2013). Fyodor died on December 28

The Japanese state was created on the foundation of the Yamato state formation, which arose in the Yamato region (modern Nara prefecture) of the Kinki region in the III-IV centuries. In the 670s, Yamato was renamed Nippon "Japan". Before Yamato, there were several

Many people know that Christianity and socialism are very close in spiritual and ideological terms. However, few people know that it was the Jesuit monks who created the world's first state entity with signs of socialism on the territory of modern Paraguay (Latin America), and even long before

On September 27, 1925, in Moscow, officers of the United State Political Administration (OGPU) detained one of the most famous British intelligence officers, the "king of espionage" - Sidney George Reilly. It is believed that it was he who became the prototype of James Bond's super spy from Ian's novels

Despite the successful completion of the Russian-Lithuanian war of 1487-1494 (for more details in the article VO: Little-known wars of the Russian state: the Russian-Lithuanian "strange" war of 1487-1494), the issue was not closed. Ivan III Vasilievich considered the outcome of the war unsatisfactory. Was not completed

One of the most terrible pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War is the fate of Soviet prisoners. In this war of extermination, the words "captivity" and "death" became synonymous. Based on the goals of the war, the German leadership would prefer not to take prisoners at all. The officers and soldiers were told that the prisoners

Before starting a conversation about the tragedy of the Romanov family (let's call a spade a spade - after the abdication of Nicholas II it became not entirely correct to call it imperial), it is worth mentioning that absolute, one hundred percent and 100% confirmed confidence that in the basement

March 19, 2012 is a memorable date for Algeria and France - 50 years since the end of a long and bloody war. On March 18, 1962, in the French city of Evian-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva, a ceasefire agreement was signed (from March 19) between France and the Liberation Front of Algeria

Recent battles By early 1987, the situation on the Iranian-Iraqi front was similar to previous years. The Iranian command was preparing for a new decisive offensive in the southern sector of the front. The Iraqis relied on defense: they completed the construction of 1.2 thousand km of the defensive line, in the south of it

The operation, which will be discussed in this article, is poorly studied in Russian historiography. There are understandable objective reasons for this - the beginning of the Great Patriotic War was full of dramatic, bright pages. Therefore, the Iranian operation is a joint British-Soviet operation of the Second World War

On December 13, 1981, the head of the government of the Polish People's Republic (PPR) and Defense Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski introduced martial law in the country. A period of dictatorship began in the country - 1981-1983. The situation in the Polish People's Republic began to heat up back in 1980. This year, prices have been raised for many

In the first part of the article, Great Scythia and the super-ethnos of the Rus, it was noted that the Scythian state had a state-communal system. Moreover, this power was of an imperial type, but not a unitary one, but a “federal” one. It was a complex hierarchical structure that included tribal communities, tribes, and

The plans of the tsarist General Staff to conduct not one, but two offensive operations at once (against Germany and Austria-Hungary) are often criticized. The "premature" offensive was even more criticized - before the mobilization was completed. Russia was forced to launch an offensive on the 15th day of mobilization, and

The history of the Red Empire - USSR is full of various myths. One of them is the lack of competitiveness of the Soviet Union. According to the supporters of this idea, the socio-political and economic system built in our country was obviously worse than the western one, and therefore collapsed. She lost in the competition with

The majority of the citizens of the perished USSR will agree with the opinion that Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika became a disaster for tens of millions of people, and brought benefit only to an insignificant stratum of the “new bourgeoisie”. Therefore, it is necessary to recall the first "perestroika", which was headed by N. S. Khrushchev, and which

75 years ago, on April 6, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked Yugoslavia and Greece. The Yugoslav ruling elite and the army were unable to offer worthy resistance. On April 9, the city of Nis fell, on April 13, Belgrade. King Peter II and his ministers fled the country, first flew to Greece, and from there to

American artist Don Troyani 160 years ago, the Civil War began in the United States. The industrial North fought to the death with the slave South. The bloody massacre lasted four years (1861-1865) and claimed more lives than all other wars in which the United States participated combined. The myth of the war for

Prince Pozharsky at the head of the militia. Chromolithography based on the painting by T. Krylov. 1910 How the First Militia was born Moscow patriots established contact with the residents of Smolensk and Nizhny Novgorod. After the Battle of Klushino, part of the Smolensk nobility, in order to save their estates, entered the service of the Polish king

German soldiers, caught by sniper fire on the road, return fire. Yugoslavia The Italian problem Duce, dreaming of creating a new Roman Empire, decided it was time to act. He was especially attracted by Greece. He hoped to attract and, as it were, "kindred" Roman-speaking Romania

The commander of the 3rd Panzer Regiment of the 2nd Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht Hermann Balck in the hatch of the command tank Pz.Bef.Wg. III Ausf. E (F) in the area of Panteleimonas. A New Zealand prisoner of war sits on the tank behind the Diversion of German forces to Yugoslavia did not save Greece. German tanks bypassed strong defenses

Wehrmacht soldiers wearing the armor of a captured Yugoslavian Renault R35 tank. Sarajevo area. April 1941 Strategic vulnerability of Yugoslavia The strategic position of Yugoslavia in connection with the entry of German troops into Bulgaria became extremely unfavorable. In the north and east (Austria, Hungary, Romania and