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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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In the previous articles of the cycle, we examined in detail the main issues of the battle of the "Varyag" and "Koreyets" with the superior forces of the Japanese, so there is not much left for us. We have given a diagram of the damage received by the Varyag before the cruiser passed the traverse about. Phalmido (Yodolmi), that is, until 12.05 in our time
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In the final article of the cycle, we will bring together all the main facts and conclusions that we made in the previous materials. The history of the cruiser "Varyag" began extremely strange: a contract with Ch. P. Verkhovsky) was concluded on 11
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On September 6 (August 27), 1689, the Treaty of Nerchinsk was signed - the first peace treaty between Russia and China, the most important historical role of which lies in the fact that for the first time it also defined the state border between the two countries. The conclusion of the Nerchinsk Treaty put an end to
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Hooray! To the Russian fleet! .. Now I say to myself: Why was I not at Corfu, even a midshipman! Alexander Suvorov 215 years ago, on March 3, 1799, the Russian-Turkish fleet under the command of Admiral Fyodor Fedorovich Ushakov completed the operation to capture Corfu. French troops were forced to surrender
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Monument "Exodus" In 2013, on the embankment of Novorossiysk there was a monument "Exodus", dedicated to the flight of the All-South Territory of Yugoslavia in 1920. The first persons of the city from the former party workers pushed speeches about the importance of perpetuating such a tragic page in our history, but even then a deep lurch was heard between the lines
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The defeat of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War did not mean the end of armed resistance against the Franco dictatorship established in the country. In Spain, as you know, revolutionary traditions were very strong and socialist doctrines were widely popular among the workers
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Given the strength of the British and German naval forces, the North Sea was considered the main naval theater of operations. Military action in the North Sea began in accordance with plans that were developed before the First World War. The main efforts of the British Navy were
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In March 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended. The last republicans left through the Pyrenean passes to France. The new power in Spain was personified by General Franco - the rank of Generalissimo was awarded to him later. His position and position were determined by the title "caudillo"
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It is generally accepted that atalism is a custom of the Caucasus, according to which a child, after his birth, is sent to be raised by his “adoptive” father. Hence the name of this tradition, since “ata” means father, and “atalyk” means fatherhood. After reaching a certain age, the young man could return to
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At the end of November 2019, Azov became shallow. In the area of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, the water retreated hundreds of meters from the coast, an even larger shallowing could be observed by the Rostovites. But if a common man in the street looked with curiosity at an unusual natural phenomenon, then the old residents of the Azov coast of Krasnodar
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A modern monument to the feat of St. George's Lent The night from 3rd to 4th September 1862 was windy and chilly. In the morning the mountains and gorges were watered with might and main by a powerful downpour, and fog streamed along the mountain ranges. The slanting rain turned the area almost into a swamp. By this time, the enemy detachment
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Kuban Cossacks at the Christmas tree Kuban and the North Caucasus in the 19th century were still a wild land, dangerous and uninhabited. The Cossack villages resembled rather earthen fortifications, bristling with watchtowers, on which a guard was on duty day and night. Pickets were set up around the villages. And in
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Monument to the feat of the Cossacks of St. George's post, established during the tsarist regime On the bank of the Neberdzhaevsky reservoir, which stretches in a picturesque valley and supplies Novorossiysk with water, a traveler can notice an ancient monument. The monument symbolizes both feat and tragedy
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Traditionally, it is considered that amanathism is a simple hostage-taking, since the word amanat is translated as “hostage”. Instantly, in the imagination of the layman, an unsightly picture of a handful of citizens on the floor of the bank under the barrels of automatic weapons appears, a kidnapped person hidden in an old
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Lipka Commemoration at the Monument to St.George PostAfter the death of St.George Post, the fallen heroes were buried in different places. One part of them, together with the commander Yefim Gorbatko, rested in the cemetery of the village of Neberdzhaevskaya. Others, as it turned out later, were less fortunate, they were buried in
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Pyotr Zakharov-Chechen. Self-portrait The fate of Pyotr Zakharovich Zakharov-Chechen is inextricably linked with the terrible assault on the village of Dadi-Yurt. This topic is difficult and potentially explosive, because many ethnically committed historians try to use it in political games and cultivating growth
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View of Elbrus from the Kanzhal plateau In official historiography, it is generally accepted that the battle took place in 1708, when the territory of Kabarda was subordinate to the Crimean Khanate. The Crimean khans and the Ottoman Empire considered Kabarda only as a supplier of slaves and slaves, and this was
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The project of the monument to Kurgoko Atazhukin At the Kanzhal plateau, the troops of the Crimean Khan Kaplan I Giray suffered a crushing defeat. The khan himself only miraculously survived and fled from the battlefield, taking with him the remnants of the once mighty, but arrogant army. The Kabardians rejoiced at the site of the massacre. For a lot
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Nazir Katkhanov and the fighters of the Shariah column A party of independent Cossacks with the Kuban Rada was formed in the Kuban, Georgian nationalists under the mask
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The beginning of the bloody 1918. The southern Russian city of Maykop, which is translated from the Adyghe as "the valley of apple trees", with a population that barely exceeded 50 thousand inhabitants, did not remain aloof from the great and terrible events of national history. Already in January 1918, Maykop passed into the hands of the Bolsheviks, who raised
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At the beginning of the second half of the 18th century, Fatali Khan (Fat Ali Khan), the son of the deceased Khan Huseyn Ali, ascends to the throne of the Cuban Khanate with its capital in Cuba (now Guba, Azerbaijan). Soon, the Shirvan Khan Aga-Razi-bek raided his khanate, sensing the weakness of the once idle young ruler. But