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Everyone is familiar from childhood with the painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581", created in 1883-1885. the great Russian artist Ilya Repin. It depicts Tsar John IV, bending over his son in deep sorrow. The reason for the grief, according to the plot of the picture, is clear: the king, suddenly
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In Russian history, there are several rulers, negative myths about whom have overshadowed the whole true essence of their rule, all the achievements and victories. One of the slandered sovereigns is Ivan the Terrible. From childhood, we were all inspired by the idea of Ivan the Terrible as an extremely cruel and almost insane ruler
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Prince Yaroslav was nicknamed the Wise largely because he was an outstanding diplomat. He knew how to build bridges between Russia and other states. There was no more reliable means for this than dynastic marriages. Anna was his youngest daughter. She was born when Yaroslav had already become great
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Twenty years ago, on October 4, 1997, the outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actor Georgy Yumatov passed away. People's Artist of the RSFSR, Georgy Alexandrovich (1926-1997) played roles in many of the most popular Soviet films. Most of the films in which he starred were dedicated
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"… Blessed on the throne, one of those poor in spirit who befits the Kingdom of Heaven, and not earthly, whom the Church so loved to include in her saints." O. Klyuchevsky 460 years ago, on May 20, 1557, the Russian tsar Fedor I Ioannovich, the last tsar from the Rurik dynasty, was born. Most historians
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On March 27, 1968, fifty years ago, a plane crash occurred near the village of Novoselovo, in the Kirzhach district of the Vladimir region. The MiG-15UTI, a two-seater jet trainer, fell. There were two people on board - two Heroes of the Soviet Union, pride
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810 years ago, in the spring of 1206, at the headwaters of the Onon River at the kurultai, Temuchin was proclaimed a great khan over all the tribes and received the title "kagan", taking the name Chingis. Scattered and warring "Mongol" tribes united into a single power. 780 years ago, in the spring of 1236, the "Mongol" army
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Leonid Grigorievich Minov became not only a pilot, but also a pioneer of parachutism in the Soviet Union. He survived the First World War and the Civil War, visited France and the United States, became the first Soviet person to jump with a parachute, received many awards, but this was not enough. Little for
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Tsarevich Alexei is a very unpopular personality not only among novelists, but also among professional historians. Usually he is portrayed as a weak-willed, sickly, almost feeble-minded young man, dreaming of the return of the order of old Moscow Russia, in every possible way avoiding cooperation with his
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The famous princess Olga is a figure no less mysterious than Gostomysl, Rurik and Prophetic Oleg. An objective study of Olga's personality is hindered by two seemingly mutually exclusive circumstances. Until the sudden death of her husband, she was only the wife of a prince, that is, a dependent figure
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Vladimir Monomakh went down in Russian history as the first defender of Russia and the winner of the Polovtsian steppe, an example for imitation of the great dukes of Moscow, Russian tsars and emperors. Victory over the Polovtsians The battle under the year of Luben did not end the confrontation with the Polovtsians. Vladimir Monomakh decided on his own
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Those who were interested even in the most superficial way in the history of medieval Russia certainly know the names of such iconic figures of Russian history as Daniil Romanovich, Prince Galitsky and Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, Grand Duke Vladimirsky. Both one and the other made a very significant contribution to
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Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich was born in the city of Vladimir on the Klyazma on March 27, 1196. One of the eight sons of Vsevolod Yuryevich Big Nest, Grand Duke of Vladimir. Mother - Czech Queen Maria Shvarnova. When Svyatoslav was 4 years old, Vsevolod Yuryevich, at the request of the Novgorodians, sent him to
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(The story was written from the words of an eyewitness of the events. The remains of an unknown Red Army soldier were found by a search group in 1998 and reburied in the village of Smolenskaya, Krasnodar Territory) The battle for the village subsided … The last groups of retreating men ran through its dusty streets, boots heavily stomping
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Ladoga, an ancient Slavic fortress city on the Volkhov River. The history of Ladoga raises many questions. In considering which it is difficult to avoid the themes of Normanism, Rurik and the Varangians. However, these three topics are for separate study and description. But I'll have to touch on them at least in passing. Because they
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“There were the centuries of Troyan, the years of Yaroslav have passed, there were also the wars of the Olegovs and Oleg Svyatoslavich. That Oleg, after all, forged strife with a sword and sowed arrows on the ground … Then, under Oleg Gorislavich, strife was sown and sprouting, the property of Dazh-God's grandchildren perished, in the princely strife the human age was reduced. Then on Russian
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So, in previous articles we examined the actions of Rear Admiral M.K. Bakhirev and the 1st brigade of cruisers in a battle with the detachment of I. Karf and "Roon". And what were the rest of the Russian ships doing at that time? On the evening of June 18, when the detachment, being in a strip of heavy fog, tried to reach Memel, "Novik" went to
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“There was a man who had only 30,000 troops and in the Celestial Empire no one could resist him. Who is this? The answer is: Sun Tzu. "According to the Notes of Sima Qian, Sun Tzu was the commander of the Wu principality during the reign of Prince Ho-lui (514-495 BC). It is to the merits of Sun Tzu that military successes are attributed
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No one in the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russia commanded a combat helicopter regiment longer than Army Aviation Colonel Vladimir Alekseevich Gospod, for twelve years. And those events that fell on the military fate of Colonel Lord would have been enough for several lives. On his account - 699 sorties
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Vladimir Alekseevich Gospodin In Afghanistan, the tragic and the comic were so mixed among themselves that sometimes it was difficult to separate one from the other. For example, we were once given the task of evacuating scouts. They were ambushed, half of the company "spirits" laid down, the battalion commander died. I took away
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No one now remembers that in 1995 the maritime tradition of the Great Patriotic War was revived - a Marine Corps company was formed on the basis of more than twenty units of the Leningrad Naval Base. Moreover, it was not an officer of the Marine Corps who had to command this company
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Prehistory Eritrea is a state in northeastern Africa, on the coast of the Red Sea. It shares borders with Sudan to the west, Ethiopia to the south and Djibouti to the east. Received independence from Ethiopia in 1993. Ethiopian-Erythrian conflict 1998-2000 - armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea for
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The commander of the 370th detachment of the army special forces, Major V.V. Eremeev Recalling the war in Afghanistan, I understand that the officers who were most loyal to the state viewed these events not only from the point of view of their international duty, but also in terms of gaining combat experience. Many officers themselves
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The main task of the helicopter pilots of the USSR border troops was fire support and support for the actions of their combat groups on the territory of Afghanistan. Fighting for border guards both began at the end of 1979 and continued until the end of the nineties. About almost unknown episodes of that secret war
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Victor Emolkin was born and raised in a remote Mordovian village. Before the army, he barely finished school, worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm, as a turner at a factory. It seemed that he would follow in the footsteps of many of his classmates, most of them drunken at a young age. But urgent service in the Airborne Forces and the war in
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Kunar At the end of the summer of 1986 we are told: we are going to Kunar. This is a terrible place, it was there that our entire platoon died before me. They landed from the helicopter in the clearing. Only one guy caught some hooks in the helicopter, and the pilots flew away with him. But it turned out that our people sat in the center of the "spiritual"
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On June 1, 1995, we replenish our ammunition and move to Kirov-Yurt. Ahead is a tank with a mine sweep, then "shilki" (self-propelled anti-aircraft installation. - Ed.) And a battalion column of armored personnel carriers, I - on the head. The task was set to me as follows: the column stops, the battalion turns around, and I storm the skyscraper
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Captivity We are somehow standing on the next hill. Then one demobilization summons me and says: "Today is a holiday - we have a hundred days before the order" (One hundred days before the order of dismissal. The order was signed annually on March 24 - Ed.) I: "So what?" - "Where is" char "?" (One of the names of cannabis, a drug from
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Hazing I myself did not experience bullying as some kind of catastrophe. I quite seriously think that it is good that she is. After all, the "grandfathers" forced us to do the right thing. Usually no one does the right thing all the time, it is very difficult. And then they force you to do everything right! And you just
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The Dembel chord In April 1987, we, six demobels from the "fifty kopeck", began to make a demob chord. Two fountains were made in the shelf at the entrance to the club (this is a huge aluminum shed). An old cannon was immediately placed on the pedestal, and the stand “The best people
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In April 1983, I wrote an article on creeping planning in nuclear power construction and offered it to one of the mainstream newspapers. (Creeping planning is when, after the failure of one date for the commissioning of an object, a new date is repeatedly assigned without organizational conclusions regarding
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About the author: Grigory Medvedev is a nuclear specialist who worked at one time at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and knows it well, personally familiar with all the main participants in the events. Due to his official position, he attended many important meetings on nuclear construction. Right after
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In the medical unit of the city of Pripyat The first group of victims, as we already know, was taken to the medical unit thirty to forty minutes after the explosion. At the same time, it should be noted all the peculiarity and severity of the situation in the conditions of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, when the impact of radiation on human organisms
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"Sailor Napoleon" When the mutiny of Kerensky and Krasnov broke out, Dybenko found himself in the center of events. That attempt to restore the power of the Provisional Government failed. At two o'clock in the morning, Trotsky, on behalf of the Council of People's Commissars, sent a telegram to Petrograd: “Kerensky's attempt to move counter-revolutionary troops
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In the first article of the series, I tried to give a quantitative assessment of the tank fleet of the Soviet Union at the time of the German attack. Now let's talk about the quality characteristics of the tanks and armored units of the Red Army. How significant it was, and how different the reality was from what
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Shoulder straps of the XIX-XX centuries (1854-1917) Officers and generals overcoat in
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At the end of May 1941 I.F. Kuznetsov reported to the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army on the completion of the formation of anti-tank brigades and the VDK of the district. At the same time, the commander of the district noted with bitterness that the manning of the airborne units was made from personnel that did not even pass
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In our age of universal awareness, it is very difficult to find something new about a famous person. Especially if someone has made an effort to properly dip the person in the mud. Or, on the contrary, to clothe an outspoken scoundrel and traitor with a martyr's crown and glorify. And therefore give some
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After the end of the war, the United States decided to strengthen its position in the European market. To limit the economic opportunities of competitors, the Americans used the issue of the war debts of the former European allies. After the formal entry of the United States into the First World War, they provided the Allies (in
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Seventy years ago, the Soviet people were able to defeat a dangerous and very powerful enemy. And practically all Soviet people, all nations and nationalities, all regions of a large country contributed to this. But one cannot but recall the feasible contribution of our allies. No, this article will not be about