Secrets of history 2024, October
In 1819, a large cliff of green-wavy jasper was found at the Revnevskaya quarry of the Altai mountain district. They managed to separate a monolith 8.5 meters long from the 11-meter block, but due to a crack it had to be divided into two parts
The pre-baptismal period of the history of Russia was a big headache for Soviet historians and ideologists, it was easier to forget about it and not mention it
In the middle of the 17th century, during the reign of Alexei Tishaishiy, the Russian Church underwent a schism - the efforts of Patriarch Nikon, who sought to "match" the domestic liturgical rite to the Greek, taken as a model, caused fierce resistance
On January 25, 1547, Ivan the Terrible for the first time in Russian history was crowned the state throne, replacing the usual grand-ducal title of the tsar
Adolf Eichmann dropped out of school at the age of fifteen, never finishing it. In search of the meaning of life, he joined the nascent Nazi party and in it found his goal - extermination of millions of Jews in death camps in war-torn Europe
Wow, I have not heard about this before. And this turns out to be a special capsule of Winston Churchill, in which he traveled on an airplane during the war. For this reason … The position of prime minister required Churchill to travel frequently by plane
And most importantly, why are they here and not in Moscow or St. Petersburg? Regional museums always surprise with something, but an Egyptian collection of this level is to be expected in the museum. I.N. Kramskoy was difficult. As it turned out, not only the oldest, but also the most impressive regional collection of Egyptian antiquities in Russia is kept here
Surely to most readers, the title of this article may seem paradoxical. What mysteries can there be in the Battle of Kulikovo? After all, for a long time everything has been clearly and clearly described in school and university textbooks, in solid monographs on the history of military art, where even maps of the battle are given
One can treat the foreign policy of the USSR in different ways; some certainly remember the "iron curtain" and the Prague spring, others are proud of the imperial tread and the tarpaulin boots of our soldiers washed in all oceans without exception
What could be more charming good old England, its neo-Gothic architecture, rigor of etiquette, sea majesty and internal vicissitudes of passions that Shakespeare described to us? But what do we know about the true way of life of the British?
Russian admiral's statements confuse Finnish audiences at 75th anniversary of the defense of the Hanko Peninsula Embarrassment, shock and unease
The fact that life in the ancient world was not sugar at all is perhaps known to everyone and does not need much explanation. However, here are some shocking facts that will show how cruel our ancestors were. 1
From a scientific point of view, Tripoli - it is an Eneolithic archaeological culture, widespread in the VI-III millennium BC. e. in the Danube-Dnieper interfluve (Moldova and Right-Bank Ukraine)
The first libraries appeared much earlier than the books themselves. All over the world, these temples of buildings served not only, and not so much as depositories of clay tablets, papyri and parchments, but also as real centers of cultural education
Our knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Rome and Greece is usually limited to a half-forgotten school curriculum or popular TV shows
Undoubtedly, the bowels of the Earth contain countless treasures. People have learned to mine, process precious stones, turning them into jewelry of amazing beauty. Of particular interest are diamonds, which are valued for their unusual brilliance of edges, play of color
Among the world's famous gemstones, the Sarsi diamond occupies one of the most prominent places. His story is a series of dizzying adventures and adventures, each of which deserves a multivolume novel
"If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is." On a late February evening in 1871, two men knocked on the door of the office of George Roberts, a famous businessman from San Francisco
"Stirlitz, and I'll ask you to stay!" Who does not know the catch phrase from the legendary TV movie "Seventeen Moments of Spring"! Or another remark from the same tape: “In our time, you cannot trust anyone, not even yourself. I can". These words were uttered by none other than the chief of the Gestapo, Gruppenführer Müller, performed by the charming Leonid Bronevoy. But
If you tune an amateur radio station to short wavelengths, you can stumble upon very strange programs almost anywhere in the world. On the air they say numbers, without interruption, one by one
This special service - the military counterintelligence SMERSH ("Death to Spies"), which has terrified the enemies of the USSR since its inception in 1943, is still being spoken about. Only after almost 70 years was the “Top Secret” stamp removed from dozens of successful operations carried out by counterintelligence officers
They did not have special access to military secrets and, in fact, became victims of spy mania. During the Cold War, the hunt for KGB, CIA and MI6 agents did not stop for a moment, although it was conducted with varying success
The history of Soviet intelligence has preserved the names of women who, at the call of their hearts, became fighters of the "invisible front" and who were protected by fate. The fate of the heroine of our story turned out to be completely different. In 1920, the Nuorteva family returned to Russia from abroad
Today, the history of tsarist Russia is of great interest. A lot of interesting and useful things can be learned from the experience of professionals in pre-revolutionary Russia. It's about Russian intelligence
2008 marked the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the famous writer Ian Fleming, the creator of the legendary 007 agent James Bond. Fleming's own personality is as unique as his superman hero
In general, the plot with "Robinsonade" is my favorite in book plots and feature films. Ever since the first book I read about this "Robinson Crusoe" I loved to follow with interest how a person will survive alone (or in a small group)
In February of this year, the world press discussed with unprecedented excitement a unique find made in an ancient Buddha statue by a collector from the Netherlands
The scientific data below is a terrible secret. Formally, these data are not classified, since they were obtained by American scientists outside the sphere of defense research, and even published in some places, but the conspiracy of silence organized around them is unprecedented
Historians-Pushkin scholars, examining the details of the duel between Georges Dantes and Alexander Pushkin, find at once several at least strange details that contradict the dueling code and quite possibly led to just such a tragic outcome
Swords ringing or the sound of buckshot - the usual thing in a showdown in duels among the nobles, in which very famous historical figures have succeeded, and poets, and hussars, and musketeers, but they were all men
The design of the nobility as a noble estate went on in Europe, starting from the 15th century. And immediately those who realized themselves noble, carried away by duels, this cross between suicide and murder. Foreign Fashion First, the duelists hid in the woods
In the 18th century, the European practice of dueling appeared in Russia. Kings and queens sought to ban it, and religious and educated people considered it barbaric. Nicholas I said: “I hate a duel. This is - barbarism
The advent of pistols eliminated the main problem of Auedei on swords - the difference in age and physical fitness of opponents. Any nobleman could hit the target from them with ten steps
We talk about what ideas about female beauty were in our country in different eras, and how they were transformed
One of the first rulers of the Moscow state, the mother of the most formidable tsars, Elena Glinskaya managed to stay on the throne quite a bit - and yet she became a legend in Russian history.Little Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich became an orphan at the age of eight
There is no concept in the world more elusive from formulations than beauty. Anyone who wants to designate it with exact canons is doomed to failure, because the images of ideal beauties from different eras sometimes completely contradict each other
I have already talked about the analytical material of the American journalist and publisher Chalz Bausman, which unequivocally proves that behind the Russophobic and anti-Russian hysteria of the West are the Idean banking clans that organize and finance this false information war in the United States and other Western countries
Soviet "beauty salons", which were generally called simply hairdressing salons, are strongly associated with the rows of dryers, under which Soviet women of fashion leaf through magazines, waiting for the permanent to act on the hair. Another image is a hairdresser in a white coat making a tall babette
As you probably know, a concubine is either a slave or a mistress who is in constant material or moral dependence on her lover
Let's celebrate the "Day" of our beautiful women not when it was founded by the "fiery revolutionaries", but when it was celebrated for thousands of centuries by our ancestors - on the vernal equinox! It will be fine