The second article in the series about military Alaska during World War II...

Georgia at the peak of its development, the image of Queen Tamara in Rustaveli’s poem, the decline and collapse of the Georgian state under her successors...

In the pre-war years, the likelihood of military action in Alaska and nearby seemed insignificant....

The fate of the hero of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Selgikov, is connected with the Bryansk forests. After being seriously wounded, a young machine gunner rescued by Pogar collective farmers joins the partisans and becomes...

“Sun-faced”, “Crown of all kings” - such epithets are found in works telling about the famous Tamara, who is credited with the construction of many fortresses, churches and bridges...

Books of Hours were truly beautifully designed books of the Middle Ages. But we will tell you about just one, the history of which is most closely connected with the fate of one outstanding...

Hitler's desperate attempt to turn the tide of the war...

The failure of the construction of a large metallurgical plant can also be explained by the fact that “anything can happen.” But how to explain the appearance of clearly incorrect instructions for construction work?...

Russia offered to arm and finance the new Polish army and transfer Turkish regions to it. The Polish lords rejected the generous offer and started a new war against Russia, which caused the Second Partition...

Episode of the “tanker war” of 1986-1989...

Khrushchev's transformations destroyed the USSR. In order for the Soviet people to lose faith and become disillusioned with socialism and the government’s course, he immediately destroyed the basic socialist principle: “To each according to his work.”...

The era of Japanese control of Korea in 1910-1945 in South Korea was called the “occupation”, and now even the “period of anti-Japanese struggle.” But how interesting was this “occupation” if it...

A battle that Americans don't like to remember...

One of the most popular monarchs of Georgia ascended the throne of a country surrounded by enemies at the age of only 16, strengthened central power and made Georgia one of the most powerful states in the region...

The “Warriors of the Cross,” who were supposed to capture Egypt and liberate the Holy Land, took and plundered the Christian city of Zadar, and then rushed to storm Constantinople...

What is our knowledge of the past based on? Of course, on written monuments that have survived to this day. What confirms them? Artifacts found by archaeologists. How many of these monuments are there to...

General Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky - the youngest front commander during the Great Patriotic War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, died on February 18, 1945...

In the Middle Ages, books of hours became a widespread form of literature, and their artistic design surpassed even many other books of that time...

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was born 130 years ago. “Kukuruznik”, who brought people to the slogan: “Khrushchev’s sausage!”...

The Corinthian and Boeotian wars, the great opponents of Sparta - Epaminondas and Pelopidas, the Egyptian campaign of Agesilaus...

50 years ago, on April 25, 1974, the last coup d'etat in Western Europe took place - the Portuguese “Carnation Revolution”. The end has come to the regime of the “New State”, which ruled...

Translation of a German document about the initial stage of the creation of the SS division "Galicia" with comments from the translator...

The most “rich” in terms of illustrations today is the “St. Louis Bible”, or, as it is also called, the “Rich Bible”, which is a moralizing on biblical themes in three...

Let's imagine you're throwing a themed party and want to impress your guests with your ability to recreate a medieval feast....