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Red Army soldiers enter TiflisGeorgian "Democracy" The Georgian Democratic Republic was proclaimed in May 1918, after the collapse of the Transcaucasian Republic. The government was headed by the Georgian Mensheviks. Among them were prominent figures who previously played a large role in

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Painting by Russian artist Alexei Kivshenko: "The entry of Russian troops into Paris in 1814" How Russia was "thanked" for the victory over the French Empire At the same time, 2/3 of the "Great Army" were not French, but various Germans

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"Cossacks". I. RepinGo over to the tsarist power of most of the right-bank Cossack regiments Throughout Ukraine, the name of Doroshenko, who brought the Turks, caused a general curse. The Turkish occupation led to massive violence, plunder and the capture of people for sale into slavery. Turkish colonization turned out to be even worse

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Tsar Alexander II 140 years ago the Russian Emperor Alexander II the Liberator was killed. The sovereign was killed in a terrorist attack carried out by several members of the Narodnaya Volya organization in St. Petersburg. This was far from the first attempt on the life of a reformer tsar. Interestingly

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Soldiers of the Buryat-Mongolian regiment of the Asian cavalry division The leaders of the "February" nature, bourgeois-liberal, pro-Western, prevailed completely. Among the exceptions was Baron Roman Fyodorovich von

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V. I. Lenin and K. E. Voroshilov among the delegates of the X Congress of the RCP (b). 1921 Exhaustion of the country World War, Troubles, intervention and mass migration led to the depletion of Russia, its resources, human and material. War communism policy, mobilization policy aimed at confronting enemies

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Tabor (Cossacks). Y. Brandt Istanbul's appetites were not limited to Ukraine. The projects of the times of Ivan the Terrible were revived - to subjugate the entire North Caucasus, capture the Volga region, restore the Astrakhan and Kazan khanates under the protectorate of Turkey. Russia had to pay tribute to Crimea as a successor

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The trial of Patriarch Nikon (SD Miloradovich, 1885) Since the time of the Great Schism, the people and the authorities have irrevocably moved away from each other. There is a gradual loss of living faith, a decline in the authority of the church. Official Orthodoxy is degenerating, shrinking, becoming an appearance. In the final we will get

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Signing of the treaty "Ravenous" peace During the First World War, the Russian army inflicted a number of heavy defeats on the Ottoman Empire. Russian troops occupied a number of regions of Turkey, captured Erzurum (the largest administrative and military center of the eastern part of Turkey), Bitlis and Trebizond. The Russian fleet was preparing

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Chigirinsky castle Beginning of the campaign of 1678 At the beginning of 1678, the Russian government made another attempt to conclude peace with Porta. The steward Afanasy Parasukov was sent to Constantinople. However, Russia's proposals for peace were rejected. Sultan insisted on his right to own Ukraine

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I. Aivazovsky. "Battle of Navarino" Russia played a decisive role in the fate of Greece. During the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829. The Ottoman Empire suffered a crushing defeat. In the Caucasus, Russian troops took Erzurum and reached Trebizond. At the Danube theater, Diebitsch's army took Silistria

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Signing of the Riga Peace Treaty 1921 The Riga Treaty was signed 100 years ago. Soviet Russia lost the war to Poland and was forced to cede the territories of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine. Also, the Soviet side undertook to pay reparations to Poland and transfer large material

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Monument to Paul I in Gatchina. The work of I. Vitali 220 years ago, the Russian Tsar Paul I was killed in his bedroom at the Mikhailovsky Castle. For a long time, the topic of Paul's murder was completely banned in the Russian Empire. According to the official version, he had an apoplectic stroke. I went to the capital

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Hike of the Troops of Moscow Rus, XVI century. Painting by S. Ivanov. 1903Osmans subjugate the Crimea The Crimean Khan Hadzhi-Girey entered into an alliance with the Turks in 1454, after the fall of Constantinople, when the Turkish fleet reached the Cafe, landed troops and tried to take the Genoese fortress. Soon the Genoese began to pay tribute

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The Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire during the siege of the Rhodes citadel The Russians entered the struggle with Turkey during the time of Ivan the Terrible. And this struggle was not for individual lands, but for the preservation of the entire Russian and Slavic civilization, Orthodoxy. The Ottoman sultans claimed not only the Balkans, but also

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MM. Antokolsky. "Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible". 1875 During the time of Ivan the Terrible, a project to create a union of the Commonwealth and the Russian kingdom arose in Poland. The prospect looked tempting. The Polish-Russian alliance could occupy a dominant position in Europe already at the beginning of the 17th century. Knock the Swedes out

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Ernest Picchio. "Execution of the Parisian Communards" French catastrophe1870-1871 years became a difficult time for France. Emperor Napoleon III, who considered France the leader of Western Europe, allowed the country to be drawn into a war with Prussia. Prussian chancellor Bismarck, who united Germany with "iron and blood"

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Scottish soldiers walking along the road in the Addis Ababa area General situation In 1935-1936, Italy captured Ethiopia and created the Italian East Africa colony. It also included Eritrea and Italian Somalia. In June 1940, fascist Italy entered World War II. Originally

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The leaders of the First People's Militia Prokopy Lyapunov, Dmitry Trubetskoy and Ivan Zarutsky. Discussion of the letter of Patriarch Hermogenes. Hood. B. A. Chorikov Enemy in the capital After the death of the Russian army in the battle of Klushino (the Klushino catastrophe of the Russian army) indignant Muscovites in July 1610 overthrew the tsar

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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