History 2024, November

360 years ago, on April 6, 1654, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich signed a letter of grant to Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky. The diploma meant the actual annexation of part of the West Russian lands (Little Russia) to Russia, limiting the independence of the hetman's power. In the document for the first time as a title

Winter 1654-1655 Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich spent in Vyazma. A pestilence raged in Moscow, and the city was closed off by cordons. In April 1655, the tsar was again in Smolensk, where preparations were underway for a new campaign. On May 24, the tsar with an army set out from Smolensk and at the beginning of June stopped at Shklov. Topics

With the outbreak of World War I, the Baltic Fleet was subordinated to the command of the 6th Army. This army was supposed to defend the coast of the Baltic and White Seas, as well as the approaches to the capital of the empire. Its commander was General Constantin Fan der Fleet. The main forces of the fleet, as outlined in the pre-war plan

Helmets are some of the most famous military artifacts. Appearing at the dawn of civilization, they almost never completely fell out of use, constantly improving and developing.Ursk standard of war. Sumer. Around 2600 BC Sumerian warriors (in the second row from the left) in

Who would have thought that in Ukraine women and children would throw up their hands in a Nazi salute and gain a new faith. Jesuit faith. And in Latvia they will forget that they wrote in Russian since ancient times. In pursuit of the number of baptized, the Jesuits went to great lengths. They changed Catholic rites to

“Neither man nor nation can exist without a higher idea. And there is only one highest idea on earth, and that is the idea of the immortality of the human soul …”F.M. Fyodor Mikhailovich's paternal ancestors in the seventeenth century moved to Ukraine from Lithuania. The writer's grandfather was a priest, and his father

The history of the Russian bayonet has overgrown with a mass of legends, sometimes completely inconsistent with the truth. Many of them have long been perceived as true. Perhaps one of the most interesting references to the use of a bayonet, which are now very fond of citing various domestic and Western "historians", is

This year marks the 110th anniversary of the first Russian revolution. For Russia, the revolutionary events of 1905-1907. were of great importance, being a kind of dress rehearsal for another revolutionary explosion that befell the country 10-12 years later. During the years of the first Russian revolution, universal for the Russian

There were two periods in the history of the Russian anarchist movement when it reached its highest peak. The first period is the revolutionary years 1905-1907, the second period is the time period between the February Revolution of 1917 and the strengthening of the Bolshevik dictatorship in the first half of the 1920s. AND

Indeed, few museums have such exhibits. Tanks, cannons, howitzers, trucks, self-propelled guns are somehow more familiar. Plus, the sizes are also suitable. And yet they were not the only ones who won wars. The locomotives were, perhaps, not so noticeable, but, nevertheless, a very significant component of any

The "Battle on the Ice" by its name alone - "Battle" has become one of the most important, and not just important, but very important facts of our national history. Undoubtedly, the popularity and pretentiousness of this event (this is undoubtedly!) Was added by the film by Sergei Eisenstein, filmed in 1938. But they know about him

The first Danube campaign In 967, the Russian prince Svyatoslav set off on a campaign to the banks of the Danube. There are no reports in the annals about the preparation of this campaign, but there is no doubt that the preliminary preparation was carried out seriously. New vigilantes were prepared, of which there were even more, gathered from

After the October Revolution and the Civil War, the Cossacks ceased to exist as a military-service class. The position of the Bolsheviks on the Cossack issue from the very beginning was focused on the elimination of this military estate, in whose person the new government saw a serious enemy. but

Grand Duke Svyatoslav went down in history as the greatest statesman of the era, the greatest commander of the Middle Ages, comparable in scope to Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Caesar. Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich expanded the borders of Russia to the borders of the Caucasus and the Balkans

1050 years ago, in 968, the great Russian prince Svyatoslav Igorevich defeated the Bulgarians and established himself on the Danube. Prehistory Svyatoslav's Khazar campaign made a huge impression on the neighboring tribes and countries, especially on the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. Russian troops pacified Volga Bulgaria

The great Russian commander Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich looks like an epic figure of Russia. Therefore, many researchers are drawn to bring him into the ranks of epic heroes, and not statesmen. However, the great warrior and prince Svyatoslav was a politician of global significance. In a number of areas

While Svyatoslav Igorevich was settling affairs in Kiev, the Romans did not doze, deploying a stormy activity among the Bulgarians. They were again called "brothers" in faith, assured of friendship, promised to marry Tsarevich Boris and Roman to representatives of the imperial house. Gold poured into the pockets of the boyars like a river, as a result

The second war with Byzantium The first stage of the war with the Byzantine Empire ended in victory for Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich. Constantinople had to pay tribute and agree with the consolidation of the Russian positions in the Danube. Constantinople renewed the payment of the annual tribute to Kiev. Svyatoslav was satisfied

The Khazar Kaganate in the 10th century was a fairly strong state that influenced world politics. An interesting fact is that such "canonical" sources as the Tale of Bygone Years, rather sparingly report on the powerful neighbor of Russia. Although according to other sources, the wars with Khazaria

"Tyulkin's fleet" consisted not only of seiners, barges and tugs. It also included a kind of aristocracy. We are not talking about some kind of supernova ships or faster ones, but about the most peaceful pleasure boats. The war required sea transport. And the passenger ships were

Seventy years ago, on August 19, 1945, the August Revolution took place in Vietnam. In fact, it was with her that the history of modern sovereign Vietnam began. Thanks to the August Revolution, the Vietnamese people managed to free themselves from the yoke of the French colonialists, and later won

One of the plots of the war between Horus and Set is associated with the famous amulet - the Eye of Horus and the lunar cycle. The myth says that during the battle, Set in the form of a hippopotamus defeated Horus and tore out his eye, putting his nephew to flight. Then Seth cut the eye of Horus into 64 pieces and scattered across Egypt (as we see

The reasons why the Cossacks of all Cossack regions for the most part rejected the destructive ideas of Bolshevism and entered into an open struggle against them, and in completely unequal conditions, are still not completely clear and constitute a mystery for many historians. After all, the Cossacks in everyday life were

In 1881, under the onslaught of Russian troops, the Geog-Tepe fortress fell - and Turkestan became part of the empire. But, seeing the futility of resistance, the Tekins, one of the largest tribes of Turkestan, already in 1875 sent a statement to the Russian command asking for citizenship of the Russian Empire and

In the 1917 campaign, the service of the Tekinsky Cavalry Regiment was largely internal. A great connoisseur of the Teke people, General of Infantry L.G

Surely everyone remembers a picture from childhood: you open a box of pencils, take them out, sharpen them, and … a delicate woody aroma begins to hover in the air, slightly tart, resinous, unobtrusive. This is a cedar. Its wood is very durable, fragrant, not subject to decay, and a unique smell can

The civil war in Siberia had its own characteristics. Siberia in territorial space was several times larger than the territory of European Russia. The peculiarity of the Siberian population was that it did not know serfdom, there were no large landowners' lands that hampered the possessions of the peasants

110 years ago, on May 27-28, 1905, the Tsushima naval battle took place. This naval battle was the last decisive battle of the Russo-Japanese War and one of the most tragic pages in the Russian military chronicle. Russian 2nd Squadron of the Pacific Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Zinovy

Morning of the Hero of the Fatherland Day, 144th kilometer of the Volokolamsk highway. The monument, which is called "Explosion" on the Internet, as it symbolizes a German self-propelled gun that was blown up by a mine. The site of another unparalleled feat of the fighters of Panfilov's division, which, unfortunately, remained in some shadow

Participants of the Ikan battle 25 years later On December 18, 1864, the Ikan battle between a hundred esaul Vasily Serov and the army of Alimkul ended in the wide steppe near Ikan We were surrounded by an evil Kokand, and for three days a bloody battle was raging with us The advance of Russia deep into Central Asia, begun after

Among the other 26 marshals of Napoleon, Louis Davout was the only person who could boast of the ancient origins of his surname. Davout belonged to the old Burgundian family, leading its ancestry as far back as the 13th century, and this was undoubtedly reflected in his character: being not only a brave military man

In the previous article, it was shown how, in the midst of the White offensive on Moscow, their troops were distracted by the Makhno raid and the actions of other rebels in Ukraine and the Kuban. Formed by the Reds from shock units, the 1st Cavalry Army, as a result of a successful counteroffensive, broke through by January 6, 1920

In previous articles on the participation of the Cossacks in the Civil War, it was shown how dear the revolution cost the Cossacks. In the course of a cruel, fratricidal war, the Cossacks suffered enormous losses: human, material, spiritual and moral. Only on the Don, where by January 1, 1917 lived 4 428

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on a rock; and the rain fell, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and rushed on that house, and it did not fall, because it was founded on a stone. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not fulfill them

Surrounded by the Red Army after the Germans left Ukraine, seeing no help from either the Anglo-French allies or from Denikin's volunteers, under the influence of the anti-war agitation of the Bolsheviks, the Don Army at the end of 1918 began to decompose and barely held back the offensive of four Red armies in the

Mikhail Borisovich Shein. Modern image Signed on December 1, 1618 in the village of Deulin belonging to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, an armistice was signed for a period of 14 years and 6 months. This peculiar feature was summed up under the events of a long, incredibly

Great Scythia and the Near East in the 1st millennium BC The first Assyrian inscriptions (these were intelligence reports to the king of Assyria) about the campaigns of the "Gimirri" people in the South Caucasus date back to the second half of the 8th century. BC NS. "Gimirri" is how the Cimmerians were called in the ancient state in the Northern Mesopotamia

At the request of readers, we continue the series of articles devoted to the pre-revolutionary history of our country In 1910, an event occurred that can be considered the beginning of the atomic program

The ancient Russian city of Smolensk, which is located on both banks of the Dnieper, is known from chronicles from 862-863 as the city of the union of the Slavic tribes of the Krivichi (archaeological data speak of its more ancient history). Since 882, the Smolensk land was annexed by Prophetic Oleg to

The demarcation line between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. August 1939. Source: http://www.runivers.ru December 24, 1989 The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union by its resolution "On the political and legal assessment of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact of 1939" denounced the secret