Secrets of history 2024, October

Each of our readers has probably heard about the spiritual knightly orders of the West. But the information that similar structures existed in the East will be a revelation for many

Many followers of the Christian faith argue that before the baptism of Russia, our ancestors did not have and did not know how to do anything, and only with the advent of Christianity did the rise of the Russian people begin, let's see if it really was so

The Second World War was fought on the territory of 40 countries, 72 states took part in it. In 1941 Germany had the strongest army in the world, but several crucial battles led the Third Reich to defeat

In May 1945, many important documents were found in the bunker of Adolf Hitler, which helped to shed light on many events of the Second World War

80 years ago, on April 28, 1937, Saddam Hussein was born - Iraqi statesman and politician, President of Iraq (1979-2003)

Centuries ago, alchemists seriously argued that gold, crushed to a state of powder, added to drink, can not only prolong a person's youth, but also restore youth to deep old people

Stalin (Dzhugashvili) Vasily Iosifovich (born March 24, 1920 - death March 19, 1962) - military pilot, general - Air Force lieutenant, youngest son of I.V. Stalin. Early years. Study At the age of 11, Vasily was left without a mother. For and

50 years ago, Ernesto (Che) Guevara was executed - Latin American and Cuban revolutionary. We will tell you about the life, aspirations and death of the legendary commandant below

Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky (born 1552 - death 12 (22) September 1612) - Russian tsar from 1606 to 1610 (Vasily IV Ioannovich). From the princely family of Shuisky. The last of the Rurik family on the Russian throne

Chapaev Vasily Ivanovich (born January 28 (February 9) 1887 - September 5, 1919) - Soviet military leader, prominent participant in the Civil War

Vladimir Monomakh (born May 26, 1053 - died May 19, 1125) General and statesman of Ancient Russia, Prince of Smolensk (from 1067), Chernigov (from 1078), Pereyaslavl (from 1093), Grand Duke of Kiev (from 1113)

Adolf Hitler (born 1889 - died 1945) Head of the German fascist state, Nazi criminal

"… Happiness darling, rootless, half-sovereign …" A.S. There are plenty of examples in world history of how a shepherdess or a swineherd become, if not tsars, then in fact the first people of the state

His Serene Highness Potemkin Grigory Alexandrovich (born September 13 (24), 1739 - death on October 5 (16), 1791) - famous statesman and military leader of the time of Catherine II the Great

Richard III (born October 2, 1452 - death August 22, 1485) King of England from June 26, 1483 to August 22, 1485

Elizabeth I Tudor (born September 7, 1533 - d. March 24, 1603) Queen of England, last of the Tudor dynasty

Fanny Kaplan, or rather Feiga Haimovna Roydman (this is her real name), was born in 1890 in the Volyn province. She will become Fanny Kaplan only 16 years later, when, upon arrest, the police find her with a fake passport in this name

I do not care what you think of me. I do not think about you at all. - Coco Chanel Gabriel Boner (Coco) Chanel - born August 19, 1883, died January 10, 1971 (87 years old)

Last week marks the fiftyth anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara. Rather, fifty years from the date of his assassination by vengeful and, admittedly, rather cowardly performers hired by the CIA

According to Jewish tradition, King Herod - usurper who overthrew the Hasmonean dynasty and ruled the province of Judea for thirty-three years

His ancestors took part in the crusades, one of the Ungerns fell at the walls of Jerusalem under the banner of Richard the Lionheart, and eleven-year-old Ralph Ungern died in the tragically ended children's crusade

The Church in Russia has existed for about a thousand years. Of course, many people have been canonized during this time. These are, indeed, people with an "angelic" character: they will always help, shelter and feed

For more than a hundred years, researchers have been fighting the mystery of the Tunguska explosion

The idea that a person can be harmed through witchcraft existed in many countries. Local cultures had beliefs associated with otherworldly ways of influencing people

Fighting armies, cavalcades of knights on white horses, unknown ancient cities surrounded by fortress walls, distant tropical islands with palm trees, water spaces with ships and seagulls - all these paintings have periodically appeared for more than one century

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is one of the oldest monasteries in the world. For centuries, legends have been made about him. But the most mysterious of them is about the cursed treasure of the black prince Mafava, which to this day does not give rest to treasure hunters

Even in such a high-tech industry as space exploration, one cannot do without signs and superstitions, for which the history of Baikonur is very generous. the cosmodrome from which the first

Can two weeks completely disappear from a person's life? Of course, if, for example, he was seriously ill, he was unconscious. But in 1918, two weeks fell from the life of a huge country - Of Russia

The title would be suitable for a film about one of the most hideous murderers in Scotland's history, Alexander Sawney Bean. Together with his clan, this criminal sent more than a thousand people to the next world

Gold bull of 1356 - legislative act passed by the Imperial Diet of the "Holy Roman Empire" and approved by Emperor Charles IV

The new capital of the Russian state, the construction of which was started on the banks of the Neva by Peter I, required its own holy - patron of the city

The history of space exploration is replete with legends and myths. All these stories are capable of causing, at the same time, horror and admiration. They have long been part of our great history

In 1978, Soviet geologists in the remote Siberian taiga on the territory of the Khakass Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic found the Lykov family of Old Believers, who lived as hermits for over 40 years

The first people lived in the territory of modern Chile and Argentina 16 thousand years ago, which refutes the popular hypothesis of the settlement of America

History does not move in a straight line. I do not argue, this saying has become a cliché. However, it does

The answer to this question is not as obvious as it seems at first glance. Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814) belonged to the French aristocracy. His father was viceroy in the provinces of Bresse, Buge, Valrome and Same

Bismarck believed that the Russians could not be defeated. Attempts at military expansion of our country were made more than once, but ended in the same thing - the defeat of the aggressor

Construction at all times has been inextricably linked with life and death. In a sense, Europe is like a huge cemetery: most castles, bridges and other fundamental buildings are watered with the blood of builders, and sometimes ritual victims

Founded in 1947, the US Central Intelligence Agency was created as an organization dedicated to the search and punishment of Nazi fugitive criminals

Personally, I remember that from Angelica.The poor and homeless of Paris during the reign of King Louis XIV, from 1654 to 1715, lived in a terrible slum in the city center, where the unemployed and disadvantaged survived by begging, theft and robbery