History 2024, November

Irrational decision-making, painful self-confidence and poor choice of allies - these are the reasons for Germany's defeat in World War II, says Bernd Wegner, professor at the Bundeswehr University in Hamburg, specialist in the history of WWII operations

The First World War destabilized the Russian Empire and undermined the old order. Numerous contradictions broke through and developed into a full-fledged revolutionary situation. In the fall of 1916, spontaneous unrest began in the capital of Russia. And part of the "elite" of the Russian Empire (the great

Let's sing a circular song About the Tsar in a Russian way. Our Tsar loves his native Russia, He is glad to give her Soul. Directly Russian nature; Russian in appearance and soul, In the midst of a crowd of people Above all, he is his head. Vasily Zhukovsky, Song of Russian soldiers Russia during the reign of Nikolai Pavlovich is considered to be “backward ". Like

100 years ago, on April 24, 1915, a monstrous campaign of genocide of Christians began in the Ottoman Empire. The ruling party "Ittihad" (Young Turks) was building grandiose plans to create a "Great Turan", which would include Iran, the Caucasus, the Volga region, Central Asia, Altai. For this, the Turks joined

On February 13, 1945, the enemy's Budapest grouping ceased its resistance. Over 138 thousand soldiers and officers surrendered to captivity. The assault and capture of Budapest was carried out by the Budapest Group of Soviet Forces under the command of General I.M. Afonin (then I.M. Managarov) within the framework of the Budapest

Leningrad in August 1941 was in a very difficult situation, the events at the front on the outskirts of the city developed according to a very bad scenario, dramatic for the defending Soviet troops. On the night of August 7-8, German units from the 4th Panzer Group struck in the areas

Faced with a powerful partisan movement after the attack on the Soviet Union (the first directives on the relevant issue appeared in the active army at the end of July 1941), the military leadership of Nazi Germany very quickly became convinced of the extremely low efficiency of using for

It would be very cool to study the history of material culture on the basis of various kinds of museum exhibits posted on the Internet. Just a list of topics and a list of museums is given. You can go from the topic, you can from the museum, or you can from the era, the country. The main thing is that there is one, and a high, quality standard

Pavle (Paya) Jovanovich. "Dance with sabers". In this article, we will continue our story about the Ottoman period in the history of Serbia. We will learn about how the Serbs received autonomy as part of Turkey, and talk about Kara-Georgiy and Milos Obrenovic - the founders of two dynasties of princes (and then kings) of this country

140 years ago, on May 5, 1877, the Russian hydrographer and polar explorer Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov was born. The Russian explorer devoted all his life and all his strength to the study and conquest of the Arctic. He was a man extremely passionate about his work, exceptional endurance and courage. Overcoming

Report at the international scientific conference "Eurasian Union", organized by the commonwealth "Serbian-Russian Bridge", Bijelina, Republika Srpska … The Institute of Russian Civilization, which I represent, starting from the All-Slavic Congress in Prague in 1998, is engaged

“The defense of the Motherland is the defense of culture. Great Motherland, all your inexhaustible beauty, all your spiritual treasures, all your infinity in all peaks and expanses we will defend.”Nicholas Roerich. Nicholas Roerich was born on October 9, 1874 in the city of St. Petersburg. His

This man bore a considerable number of titles during his lifetime. He was Count of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine and one of the leaders of the First Crusade. There, in the Holy Land, Gottfried received a new title - "Protector of the Holy Sepulcher", and at the same time became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

As a result of the voyage of Columbus, they found much more, a whole "New World" inhabited by numerous peoples. Having conquered these peoples with lightning speed, the Europeans began to mercilessly exploit the natural and human resources of the continent they had captured. Precisely, from this moment begins

"Despicable metal" and universal plastic This material has been waiting for its turn to write for a very long time. Some years. And everything got in the way. Or something was missing. It happens. And then - once, push and the puzzle is added. Yesterday, such an impetus was provided by an article by the director of the Institute of Social

Alexander Griboyedov was born on January 4, 1795 in the family of a retired Major Seconds. The father of the future poet Sergei Ivanovich and mother Anastasia Fedorovna came from the same clan, but from different branches - the father from Vladimir, and the mother from Smolensk. The Griboyedov family itself is mentioned for the first time in the documents of the beginning

The fighting began with a naval battle. Near the city of Ancona (Italy), two fleets met at sea. The Romans were defeated, completely unprepared for military operations at sea, ready. Sicily, the breadbasket, was completely cleared of them. Another attempt by Totila to settle the matter peacefully was unsuccessful:

The composition of the army for most of the 6th century: I. Courts. 1. Spatarii, scribons, silinciarii, cubicularia - small detachments of bodyguards that arose in the previous period; 2. Protectors and Domestici (protectores domestici) - officer, court ceremonial unit

On May 29, 1453, Constantinople fell under the blows of the Turks. The last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus died heroically fighting in the ranks of the city's defenders. Constantinople became the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the seat of the Turkish sultans and received a new name - Istanbul. 1100 year period

The mass domestic soldiers have a rather short history, about a hundred years - before the revolution there were practically no domestic manufactures. In those days, domestic handicraftsmen created soldiers from wood, and pewter was supplied from abroad (Germany and Austria-Hungary), they were available only

Military art The period of the 6th century can be characterized as a period of growth of the Roman military art in new historical conditions: both theoretical and practical. And if E. Gibbon wrote that in the camps of Justinian and Mauritius, the theory of military art was no less well known than

Russia is a powerful and happy country in itself; it should never be a threat either to other neighboring states or to Europe. But she must occupy an impressive defensive position, capable of making any attack on her impossible

“When they appeared before Jalut (Goliath) and his army, they said:“Our Lord! Shed your patience on us, strengthen our feet and help us to triumph over unbelievers "(Koran. Sura II. Cow (Al-Bakara). Semantic translation into Russian by E. Kuliev) Roman emperors also took

Contemporaries, according to the sources, believed that Narses as a commander was not inferior to Belisarius. There was another commander, in modern terms, from the professional military, who died in his youth, who, as Procopius of Caesarea argued, was not inferior, and maybe even superior to Belisarius

Arab (Saracenic) tribes (Semitic-Hamitic language group) in the 6th century lived in vast territories of the Middle East: in Arabia, Palestine, Syria, occupied the Mesopotamia, the south of modern Iraq. The Arab population led both a sedentary, semi-sedentary and nomadic lifestyle, the latter

Funding, supply, provision of the armed forces An important component of the conduct of hostilities is the uninterrupted supply of the army with the necessary resources

After a triumphant victory in Africa, Justinian decided to return Italy and Rome to the bosom of the empire. Thus began a long war that cost enormous efforts and losses. Looking ahead, it must be said that all of Italy was never returned to the fold of the Roman state. In 535, hostilities began with the fact that

Anger, oh, goddess, sing of Achilles, Peleev's son! His irrepressible anger caused many calamities to the Achaeans: He destroyed thousands of souls mighty and glorious heroes, He sent them to gloomy Hades! And he left the bodies to the surrounding Birds and dogs! Such was the will of the immortal Zeus, from the day that discord turned violent

The fate of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra is like a ready-made script for a theatrical stage, it is so unusual that it seems that there is no need to invent something: there was enough material for dozens of plays, novels and films, starting with Shakespeare's masterpiece and ending with the famous film by Joseph

Taking into account the above facts, it is obvious that the traditional version of the "Tatar-Mongol" invasion, the yoke and more broadly - the creation of the empire of Genghis Khan, is a myth. Moreover, this myth is very beneficial to Russia's geopolitical "partners" both in the West and in the East. It allows you to sharply narrow the historical, chronological

On April 28, the retro-train "Victory" arrived in Rostov. This is the third time I have met him. And it's time to get used to this power, to the whistle that creeps to the bone, to the steam, looking at which you get goose bumps. But I can not. On the platform one can hear "Fire is twisting in a small stove", girls in chintz

The most difficult thing is to write about something that seems to be known to everyone, but at the same time is unknown to anyone. There are such topics. And they appeared, alas, in the "light of the decisions of the party and government" of the USSR after the war. Without any logic, in our opinion. One of these topics is Siberian divisions, brigades, individual

In March 1963, Rostislav Alekseev was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, he had many new responsibilities. His secretary, Maria Ivanovna Grebenshchikova, sorted the increased mail into three large piles every day: those directly related to bureau affairs, "doctoral" ones related to

The United States has a number of very specific features in its military reward system that distinguish it from the armed forces of other countries in the world. However, the main place in it is still occupied by the usual badges. Today we will talk about them in more detail

In this article, we will complete the story of the French Foreign Legion. The soldiers of his regiments are now treated much better in France than they were fifty years ago. At least, the soldiers of the legion are not now considered by and large as criminals and socially dangerous psychopaths. However

Combat training in the fleet was in full swing. The ships of the division, having completed coursework at the base, went to sea to perform practical artillery fire at a coastal target. On the destroyer "Metkiy", the division commander himself went to sea, leaving the chief of staff in the base, Vasya, also known as

The "war on monuments", as it turned out, is characteristic not only of the former republics of the Soviet Union and the former socialist bloc countries in Eastern Europe, but also of the United States itself. The scandal continues over the demolition of monuments to the leaders of the Southern Confederation. A real epidemic of the transfer of monuments from

There is nothing under the sun that did not exist before. The entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan in 1979 was not the first. Even at the dawn of Soviet power, the Bolsheviks tried to expand their influence in this country. Battlefield - Afghanistan For several hundred years, the British Empire moved from India to

In August 1943, Operation Tidal Wave was carried out by bombers from the United States of America, which is rightfully considered one of the two most unsuccessful strategic aviation campaigns in the entire Second World War, both in terms of losses and results achieved. Her goal

In 1963, an interview with the leader of the Cuban revolution, and at the same time one of the most famous people of our time, Fidel Castro, was published in Spanish-language newspapers. Among many fairly traditional and familiar questions, one stood out: “Which of the heroes of World War II could you call your