Secrets of history 2024, October

An iPhone-like gadget held in his hand by a half-naked Indian A picture of an iPhone-like object was painted by the Italian artist Umberto Romano in 1937. At that time, there was no question of anything like that

Belgian artist Georges Kreugaert (1848-1923) is best known for creating a series of exposing works of art depicting Catholic priests engaged in sinful deeds far from selfless service

The painting "Barge Haulers on the Volga", which glorified Ilya Repin, has received mixed reviews since its inception. Someone admired the artist's skill, someone accused him of deviating from the truth of life

Historically, the game has come into our lives from the depths of centuries. Moreover, there are games that are played in the same way according to the same rules all over the world. And, probably, it is impossible to find a person who did not play hide and seek, classics, catch-up (tag) or football in childhood, regardless of which country, on which continent he lives and what language he speaks

One of the most iconic representations of the goddess Aphrodite, known as Aphrodite Anadiomene, was a highly popular subject for classic paintings of the Renaissance and modern times

Pictures of eminent artists are considered masterpieces of world painting for a reason. They not only give aesthetic pleasure, but also give energy to the mind. In many compositions, the authors left messages for their descendants

"Moonlit Night on the Dnieper" (1880) - one of the most famous paintings by Arkhip Kuindzhi. This work made a splash and gained mystical fame

It was painted by Titian and Rubens, as well as many other famous artists (from Antiquity to Modern times). As a rule, Andromeda is depicted exactly naked and chained to a rock, and this is rightfully considered a classic

The series of paintings "Danae" created between 1544 and 1560 in the workshop of the Italian painter Vecellio Titian includes six fairly frank and world famous works

Some researchers are convinced that the paintings of the great masters contain secret symbols, which, upon close examination, can be seen and sometimes even deciphered their meaning … In particular, this applies to the works of Leonardo da Vinci and other

Everyone knows this picture. And surely many will not hesitate to name its author - Victor Vasnetsov. But the name may be mistaken. After all, it asks for the language - "Three heroes". But - no, the picture is simply called "Heroes"

"The beauty has come" - this is how the name of Nefertiti is translated. But where did she come from? What kind of country and people gave birth to such a beauty who became the queen of Egypt?Yes, Nefertiti was not Egyptian. Most researchers have concluded that she is the daughter of the king of the state of Mitanni Tushratta and this was a dynastic marriage

Peipsi mines are called ancient geological mines that are found everywhere in the Urals. Some of the Chud workings are several millennia old. In one of his first stories, P.P. Bazhov. The story was called "Dear name", where chud or "old people" were presented in the form of a people living secretly in the interior of the Ural mountains

How intelligence agencies use oracles, mediums and other people with supernormal abilities Magicians, mediums and predictors of the future. Interest in them fades out, then flares up with renewed vigor

Mummification was carried out five and a half thousand years ago. An international team of researchers has conducted a chemical analysis of the mummy, whose age is estimated at 5.5-5.7 thousand years

Despite the fact that the name of Faust was overgrown with a huge number of legends and myths, both oral and literary, such a person existed in real life. Was Faust a powerful sorcerer who sold his soul to the devil, or just a charlatan?

The history of world painting knows not so many paintings, the creation of which the artist would devote a significant part of his creative life. These canvases include "Heroes" ("Three Bogatyrs") by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

It is impossible to determine exactly when a person first got fire, when he wrapped himself in the skin of an animal, fleeing the cold, or when he first took a piece of charcoal and began to paint on the walls of a cave

Neuroscientists from the USA saw in the murals of the Sistine Chapel in Rome an encrypted neuroanatomical message left by the great artist of the High Renaissance Michelangelo

Researchers from Brazil have found hints of a female body in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Scientists provide arguments in favor of their assumption in an article published in the journal Clinical Anatomy

Artists, poets and musicians - people are creative, and who knows what they really mean? 1

When it comes to art, most people remember the heyday of a genius of a certain period, often forgetting that it was the environment that shaped the style and vision of the artist's world

The work of the eighteenth-century French painter Robert Hubert has not been fully appreciated until now, although during his lifetime this artist was a recognized genius and, one might even say, turned out to be a darling of fate

All my adult life I came across articles about Alaska. In them two versions were intricately intertwined. The first - the rotten tsarist regime, criminally spending "national property", sold Alaska for a pittance. And the other - America rented Alaska and was obliged to return it

The author of the famous dystopian novel "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley devoted part of his life to mystical searches and searches for means of expanding consciousness. He believed that one must be able to "come to reality without a magic wand and witchcraft spells

The Novgorod land was one of the centers of the formation of the Old Russian state. It was in the Novgorod land that the Rurik dynasty began to reign, and a state formation arose, which received in historiography the names Novgorod Rus, Upper Rus, Povolkhov Rus, from which it is customary to begin the history of Russian statehood

In the Civil War of 1918-1922, as well as in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the question was decided whether or not to be Russia, to live or not to live for the peoples inhabiting its vast expanses.Unfortunately, at present, society is imposed on the view of the events of the Civil War of the defeated side: the White armies, the interventionists of the USA, England, France, Germany and other Western countries, which tried to crush Russia at all times

Long before Emperor Peter I ascended the Russian throne, his predecessors showed an increased interest in a distant exotic country - India, whose innumerable treasures were legendary. Therefore, from time to time, enterprising people, most often of the merchant class, equipped expeditions there

"Cuckoo" - extremely risky game of officers of the Russian Imperial Army, which, nevertheless, was widespread in all remote garrisons, from Merv to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Evidence of massacres, including brutal beheadings, committed during the bloody reign of the Hasmonean king Alexander Yannai (103-76 BC

Amazing finds obtained during archaeological excavations completely change the usual ideas about history and cast doubt that Christopher Columbus discovered America.So who actually discovered America? Did Columbus have predecessors? There are a lot of candidates - these are the ancient Egyptians, and the ancient Romans, and the Greeks, Arabs and Phoenicians, Vikings, Chinese and Japanese

The most incredible stories and assumptions are connected with the legendary sinking ship "Titanic". Many moments of the crash still remain a mystery. We bring you amazing little things and facts about the Titanic that you have never heard

The Russian diamond fund contains one beautiful and unusual stone - an octahedron-shaped diamond engraved in Persian. The 88.7-carat Shah diamond is not cut, but simply polished, completely transparent and has a slight yellowish tint.This is an unusual diamond with an unusual fate

Surely everyone knows the story of Snow White from the stories of the Grimmily brothers of the Walt Disney cartoon. The evil stepmother envied the beauty of the young stepdaughter and poisoned her with a poisonous apple

Baba Yaga is a fairy-tale character, known to everyone from childhood, and that is not without reason. Modern children have an idea that Baba Yaga is an old, terrible old woman who feeds on small children and walks on a bone leg and "Baba Yaga is a bone leg"

Bertha Antonin Meine is a passenger of the ill-fated Titanic, which drowned in the waters of the Atlantic. Everyone knows that the ship was never able to complete its maiden voyage, having split in two after colliding with an iceberg. The huge liner sank to the ocean floor on April 15, 1912

From agnostics to theologians, Ivan Panin was born almost at the very end of the unsuccessful Crimean war for Russia - December 12, 1855

Familiar tourists from the Dyatlov group, who participated in the search for the group, put forward their own version of the death of nine students in 1959.Master of Sports in Tourism, participant in the search for Dyatlovites Vladislav Karelin spoke about the signs of a man-made phenomenon, which he personally recorded during his trip two weeks later and 50 kilometers south of the hike of the deceased tourist group

Antarctica, the southernmost continent, can rightfully be considered one of the largest geographical discoveries made by Russian seafarers. Today Antarctica is a territory of international importance that does not belong to any country, but arouses keen interest at once from a number of states

On March 1, 1950, at 7:25 pm, a quiet and calm evening in Beatrice, Nebraska was disrupted by a powerful explosion. The force of the explosion was such that windows were shattered in many houses throughout the town, and the broadcast of the local radio station was interrupted