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A helmet from the do-maru armor of the Muromachi era. The armor is classified as an important cultural property of Japan. Tokyo National Museum And the young messenger said, “Look, this is the shirt, sleeping in it from dawn to dawn, My Lady. And take away your Shield, chain mail and helmet, and soar with your soul, And in this shirt there are linen miracles
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Flag of Afghanistan in 1880-1901 The reign of Emir Abdur-Rahman The world is ruled by signs and symbols, not words and laws.”Confucius is a long way to the state flag. In the previous article about flags, it was about the choice of the state flag for the renewed Russia. Someone have the idea of a white-yellow-black flag
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In the textbook of the history of the Middle Ages for the 6th grade, E.V. Agibalov and G.M. Donskoy 1966, there were such colorful illustrations. This shows how the sea geese blew up the dams on Zelder See and came to the aid of the besieged Leiden
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A rare photograph from the period of the American Civil War, which shows an officer and gunner of Berdan's sniper unit. Usually they didn't like being photographed. And they had reasons for this! It was far from immediately that the military appreciated the role of sniping - marksmanship of individual shooters at important targets
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Eugene Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People" 1830, Louvre's fell. The law, leaning on liberty, proclaimed equality, And we exclaimed: Bliss! O woe! crazy dream, where is the liberty and the law? The Ax rules over us, We have overthrown the kings. The murderer with the executioners We have chosen to be the king. Oh God! oh shame! but
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Persepolis. Bas-relief depicting the "Immortals" - the bodyguards of the Persian kings. (Photo Aneta Ribarska) “In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord aroused the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, and he commanded to declare throughout his kingdom, verbally and
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A set of gold jewelry from an Etruscan tomb. The beginning of the 5th century BC NS. Consists of a magnificent necklace of gold and glass, a pair of earrings with discs of gold and rock crystal, a gold clasp for a dress (brooch) decorated with a sphinx figure, a pair of simple gold brooches, a gold pin for a dress and
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Knowledge of heraldry very often helps us figure out who or what exactly is depicted in certain ancient manuscripts or on sculptures … Heraldry arose primarily out of necessity. It was necessary to somehow identify the warriors on the battlefield, dressed in almost the same armor. So on the field
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Reception of volost elders by Alexander III in the courtyard of the Petrovsky Palace. Painting by I. Repin (1885-1886). Only freedom has fallen to the people, Only a clique is powerful of the people, Only the work belongs to the people, And the path of its powers is great! (K. Aksakov "Towards a Humanist") The history of Russian liberalism. Today we
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The top of the medieval "family pyramid". Above are the most noble, that is, the well-born, living by labor masses of rootless, "simple" people who create all their wealth for them. The magnificent book of hours of the Duke of Berry. 1410-1490s (Museum of Condé, Chantilly) A man has a character of a pig, It is not decent to live
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Christine de Pisan presents her "Book of military exploits and knightly laws" to Queen Isabella of France. Worthy is the one who is ready to strike and fall! observes his honor, To be
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Louis Maurer. Buffalo Bill Hunting Buffalo The opinion of those in power can be formed in the same way as the opinion of the last drunkard. The only difference is that for the first one you need to try and lay out the money, and the second one and a bottle of vodka will be enough for the eyes. That is, a good PR - everything is in the head. Therein
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Sale of a courtyard girl in the painting by artist Nikolai Nevrev “Bargaining. A scene from the serf life. From the recent past "(1866, Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery) So, we have to wrap the medal on the other side. Suppose a peasant child grows freely without learning anything, But he grows up if
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The last crutch (1881). Painting by Thomas Hill (1829-1908). California State Railroad Museum. "It is also surprising how quickly the United States recovered from the Civil War - just instantly by historical standards!" Tlahuikol Paradoxes of history. Some time ago I saw an American movie
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A still from the film "Samurai and the Cat". Cats have always had a special relationship in Japan. They were revered and … feared. It was scary to kill a cat for a commoner. And for this they had to hire a samurai. But when the samurai looked the cat in the eyes, he could not kill her, and then they became friends
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The coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth II is an example of the coat of arms, which contains all the elements, except for the mantle. And it is also the coat of arms of Great Britain. It was approved back in 1837. The crest in this coat of arms is a crowned leopard. Crown - Saint Edward the Confessor. Backboard holders - crowned lion
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Caricature 1903 "Emigrants who are in the USA, and who meets them here" "Leave, ancient lands, praise for the centuries! I cry in silence. Give me your tired people, All those who want to breathe freely, abandoned in need, From the cramped shores of the persecuted, the poor and the orphans. So send them, homeless and exhausted, to
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Still from the film "Ann Oakley" (1935) "Four things above all: women, horses, power and war" (Rudyard Kipling) Land overseas. As you know, different people are needed, different talents are important. Someone masterfully composes music, someone sings, another forges iron and bakes pies, and such that simply
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Isaac Ilyich Levitan. "Village". He is rightfully called the painter of the Russian countryside. And everything is drawn from nature. In fact, these are photographs … "The great chain broke, Broke - scattered One end for the master, Another for the peasant! .." (Who lives well in Russia. N. A. Nekrasov) The beginning and end of the peasant
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Carpet with knights and coats of arms from the Wienhausen Abbey monastery. Celle / Celle. Germany. 1330 Each aspired to be in a new being And to go out into battle in the purest one. There is a tower on a shield shining with gold, There is a lion, there is a leopard and a fish in a battle coat of arms. A peacock's tail serves as an adornment
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The American army goes on a campaign in the depths of the prairies. Still from the movie "Sound of a Distant Trumpet" For 90 years, the American army served as a kind of buffer between the indigenous Indian population of the Wild West and white settlers. It so happened that she fought with them, it also happened that she also protected them … “I
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Marina Ladynina is an order-bearer, a tractor driver, a collective farmer, but in reality she is a star of the Soviet cinema screen of the 1930s … A shot from the 1939 film "Tractor Drivers" The storms of revolutionary bosoms have calmed down. The Soviet mishmash has been covered with mud. And crawled out from behind the backs of the RSFSR, the murderous bourgeoisie. with
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Here it is - that "gigantic petty-bourgeois wave" about which Lenin will write in April-May 1917. In gray greatcoats and with rifles in hand. You can be torn apart by a bomb, you can die for your land, but how to die for a common one?
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Princely coat of arms of Monaco Is there anywhere in Europe such a happy place where people would live up to 90 years or more, enjoying the sea and the sun, and not in some mountainous Cretan village, but at the same time enjoying all the benefits of civilization? It turns out that there is such a place and it is called - a principality
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"Decembrists on Senate Square". V.F. Timm. State Hermitage. St. Petersburg - Then, Lord, wipe us off the face of the Earth and create anew more perfect … Or, even better, leave us and let us go our own way. “My heart is full of pity,” said Rumata slowly. - I can't do it
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Napoleon at Preussisch-Eylau. Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835). Louvre “Why are we going to winter apartments? Don't the commanders, strangers, dare to tear their uniforms against the Russian bayonets ?! " - well, who is not familiar with these lines from Lermontov's "Borodino"? And do they not mean that at that time in winter they did not fight, but waited
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The coat of arms of "disinherited". A still from the 1982 movie "Ivanhoe". But the book says that the inscription is at the bottom? “It had a steel shell with a rich gold notch: the motto on its shield depicted a young oak, uprooted; under it was an inscription in Spanish: "Desdichado", which means
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Battle of Neville's Cross. Miniature from the 15th century Froissard Chronicle During the Hundred Years War, people not only fought and killed each other. They also ate, and tried to eat better. But what they ate - that will be our story today … “Russian cuisine is one of the first
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Cover: "Russian Truth" Comrade, believe: she will rise, The star of captivating happiness, Russia will rise from sleep, And on the wreckage of autocracy They will write our names! (To Chaadaev. AS Pushkin) The history of the first opposition to the autocracy in Russia. In our last article about the Decembrists, we parted on that
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Lithograph from a drawing by M. Yu. Lermontov with a tower on a rock … It bears Lermontov's handwritten inscription: "View of the Krestovaya mountain from the ravine near Kobi." Four lithographs were made from the drawing, and this name passed to them, but this is not entirely true: Lermontov in this case depicted the village of Sioni
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Beggars are singers. Painting by V. Vasnetsov, 1873. Vyatka Art Museum of V.M. I am. Vasnetsovs “Give to the hungry of your bread and to the naked of your clothes; from whatever you have in abundance, do alms, and let your eyes not pity when you do alms. " (Tobit 4:16) “The king comes out of
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Emperor Justinian I with his retinue brings gifts to the temple. Mosaic of the apse in the church of San Vitale. Mid-6th century n. NS. Ravenna Here came the turn of the clothes of Byzantium - the Third Rome: the last heiress of the culture of Ancient Rome, an empire in which religion dictated the canons of fashion, and fashion helped the celebration
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The irony of "paternal life" … A can of canned food on the festive table. It is supposed to put the contents of the jar on a special plate or in a salad bowl, but … it will do just fine, doesn't it ?! Everything is absolutely, the advantages of the social environment and its disadvantages are manifested in such little things! Shot from the film "Irony
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Beggar settlers. Very often in pre-revolutionary Russia immigrants were beggars. Newspapers wrote a lot about the hardships and hardships associated with resettlement, and many took advantage of it. “The horse has fallen, the cow has died, the wife and the children have died … This is how it is in resettlement! Give it, for Christ's sake! "" But to
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English tank Mk IV with a log for self-pulling, 1917 Every war and every nation had its own heroes. They were in the infantry, among the pilots and sailors, they were also among the British tankers who fought on their primitive fire-breathing "monsters" during the First World War. "And I looked, and
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Even the seven ronin from the movie “Seven Samurai” were somehow embarrassed to fight without their own banner! … "Lads, whose will you be, who will fight you
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"Zemstvo is having lunch." Painting by Grigory Myasoedov, completed in 1872. Stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow “While studying the history of my country, I noticed that the Zemstvo movement is very poorly consecrated in the historical literature (the reasons for its formation, its role in the expansion
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The beggar and his children "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven … … Give to him who asks from you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you" (Gospel of Matthew 5: 3, 5:42) Charity in pre-revolutionary Russia. In accordance with the Christian faith, the beggars in Russia were required to give, and the giving of alms
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Tank A7V "Mephisto" after evacuation from the battlefield, 1918. Australian soldiers are standing around the tank and rejoicing! Imperial military archive "Tanks rushed, raising the wind, Formidable armor was advancing …" "Three tankmen" BS LaskinTanks of the world. And it so happened that after a successful offensive at Cambrai, the Germans decided
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The site of the battle today … Evening. Photo from the bus window There are battles, the impact of which on history was truly enormous. One of these battles was the battle that took place in 1805 in the lands of the then Austrian Empire in the area of Austerlitz. It is believed that there were only three similar battles in the history of wars: