Secrets of history 2024, October

Is there a correct belief? And what is this? Humanity has always strived to learn the inexplicable and explain the incomprehensible phenomena that still exist. Today, various scientists and all kinds of specialists are engaged in interpretation, and in ancient times, people came to the wise men and witches for answers to all questions

German military historians call the hostilities on the Eastern Front in May 1942 the "Elimination of the Raisin Bulge", and domestic ones - the "Kharkov battle of 1942". But whatever they were called, it was the hardest defeat for Soviet troops in the entire history of the war

Most people leave for another world quite prosaically - from illness or old age, few - tragically. But not everyone is able to adequately live to old age and meet death with dignity

Moscow of the 18th century - a thieves' capital, in which the day began with the identification of dozens of corpses collected during the night, which were piled up by police at central intersections. At this time, in a peasant family near the village of Ivanovo, a boy is born with an incredible name for this place and time - Ivan

In August 1944, Operation Overlord began in Normandy with a landing in northern France. The Allies have opened a second front, promised so long ago to the Soviet Union. Many people know about this operation from the movie "Saving Private Ryan", but few people know that "Overlord" gathered his bloody harvest much earlier

In 1921, on July 24, there was a train disaster with very large political consequences. Seven people died in it, six on the spot, one died later

The leader of the October Revolution of 1917 spent a significant part of his life in a political struggle full of arrests, exile and emigration

Once Mayer Amschel wrote to his son Nathan: “Without order in business, a millionaire can ruin himself and others, because the whole world is dishonest or not very honest

Many of our friends and enemies note the fact that in difficult times Russia (as before Russia) seems to be helped to withstand some higher forces and all carefully planned plans of its enemies first start to fail, and then completely collapse, burying under their wreckage and the enemies themselves, and the traitors of our people and our country serving them

From ancient times to the first third of the New Age, chain mail remained the main protective tool for a huge number of peoples of the world. Russia in this regard was no exception. Chain mail was used by the vigilantes practically everywhere

All of her is such a whole and dear to us, now degenerate, glorious type of Russian character that everyone who cherishes national covenants cannot help but love her and admire her. - H

Each state has its own canons of beauty and family traditions. Ancient Russia was no exception: the principles by which brides were chosen in the old days are often puzzling today. And the rules of family life are frightening at all

The idea of history in modern society is very different from that which was 50 years ago. Today we know for certain about the existence of numerous mysteries that the world's leading scientists cannot understand and explain

Two years before the onset of the 20th century, respectable and quite prosperous Europe shuddered from an unheard-of atrocity committed in its quietest and most peaceful corner

In 1600, in Rome, in the Square of Flowers, early in the morning, by the verdict of the Inquisition, Giordano Bruno was burned. In Soviet times, in the relevant literature they wrote about him as an atheist, although in his works, in general, there is clearly a religion, history, philosophy and … mysticism. B

At the beginning of the 19th century, Church Slavonic was the official language in Serbia. Moreover, its Russian version. The so-called Slavic-Serbian language was literary in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. Sometimes it is called Slovenian

Would you visit a castle where people often see the ghost of a woman without eyes? And the island of dolls who supposedly talk to each other?

In the 2nd half of the XIII century. BC e. instability began to grow in the Balkan-Aegean region: the Balkan tribes moved south, invading Greece and Asia Minor

Temple in honor of the victory in the Battle of Kadesh … Exactly at 6, the first rays of the sun penetrate into the temple. The face of the pharaoh, which is painted in a pale pink color, comes to life before our eyes

At the present stage, knowledge about the most ancient period of Russia sometimes completely repeats what was gleaned by German historians from Christian chronicles back in the 18th century

An online record of Soviet scientists exploring one of the Egyptian tombs sparked speculation. According to its content, the KGB officers might have found something that, if released to the public, would forever change our view of the history of ancient deities from heaven

Today, information warfare has become perhaps the most important means of the West's struggle with Russia. This is not a new method, it was effectively used by our neighbors more than four centuries ago, creating a repulsive image of the Moscow state that is beneficial to them

There are many oddities in the fairy tale "Frost". The stepmother tells her husband to send his stepdaughter to the next world (where, by the way, is patriarchy?). But excuse me, the rural community will surely learn about this. And he won't be happy: besides the fact that this is a crime, it is minus one bride and minus one pair of working hands

Karamzin called Prince Svyatoslav "Russian Macedonian", historian Grushevsky - "Cossack on the throne." Svyatoslav was the first to make an active attempt at an extensive expansion of the lands. His exploits are still legendary

The news spread widely in the media that it was finally possible to decipher the famous Voynich manuscript, the mystery of which had been fought for about a century. The source of the news is a press release from the University of Bristol, whose employee Gerard Cheshire is the author of the proposed transcript

In 1920, a sensational find in the village of Martyshkino (in 1935 it was within the city of Lomonosov) amazed many seasoned people. At the local cemetery of this settlement, mummies of the Peter's time were found

Have you ever heard of a medieval artifact called "Codex Gigas" or "Devil's Bible"? Concurrently, this book is the heaviest in the world - its weight is over 75 kilograms. In total, this book contains 312 sheets made of cow leather.The history of this artifact begins in the 17th century in Sweden, during the reign of Queen Christina

History keeps many remarkable episodes telling about people of bygone eras and their customs. Sometimes, it is told about it by their very lips … But let's start from afar

Modern mankind knows many different unsolved mysteries. They exist in various spheres of human activity and have different origins, including: natural, historical, geographical, man-made, etc. Among the man-made secrets, a special place is occupied by the so-called

The enchanting word "geisha". It came from no less mysterious Japan, which has always distanced itself from the rest of the world, trying to preserve its culture and identity

At the end of the 18th century, a selection of archival documents was made for the Polish king Stanislav Poniatowski at the Vatican. Surprisingly, the popes did not notice that Russia for a long time was under the Mongol-Tatar yoke! Or the yoke really wasn't

The first wedding night in Russia was arranged in a special way and had many differences from a similar tradition of other nations. Among the peoples of Africa, Europe and India, the right of the first night meant the intimate contact of the bride with a stranger

Everyone has heard about our slaves in the Sultan's harems, but few people know about the huge number of Russian girls bought not by Turks, but by Christian Europeans. Slaves from Western Russia were sold in Florence, Venice, where today there is the Schiavoni (Slavic) embankment, and the largest markets operated in the South of France in the province of Roussillon

In this article, we will talk about how young peasant girls lived with landowners. Life, of course, according to all, but a lot can be guessed only by remembering that with any treatment of serfs, the landowner remained unpunished. Saltychikha and a couple more high-profile cases - this is all that the tsarist office work was capable of, and that because the cases were egregious

The categories of "defectors" were different - collaborators ("Vlasovites" and other accomplices of the Nazis) were awaiting trial and the Gulag (at best) in their homeland, and many prisoners of war who did not even cooperate with the Germans had a similar fate

The eternal book, or the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, was created over the centuries, and therefore it absorbed not only divine revelation, but also human wisdom. It is not for nothing that kings and presidents have sworn and are sworn on the Holy Word

Georges Dantes will forever remain in the history of Russia as the man who killed Alexander Pushkin, the genius of Russian poetry. At the end of his life, he claimed that he owed his brilliant political career to the duel and did not regret anything

Every student knows the hypothesis about the first teachers - Cyril and Methodius. For many years we have been convinced that they generously presented the Slavs with writing, helped our state move to the next stage of development

Most ancient scholars consider New Testament preaching to be "historical myths." In other words, they think that around the beginning of the first century, a controversial Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Joseph gathered followers around him, and his life and teachings sowed the seeds from which Christianity grew

Exactly 965 years ago, in July 1054, Catholics and Orthodox Christians gave each other anathema: the "Great Separation" of the Western and Eastern Churches beganSo what is the reason for the division between Orthodox and Catholics? This question is often asked, especially at moments of such striking events as the recent visit of Vladimir Putin to the Vatican or the famous "Havana meeting" of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia with Pope Francis in February 2016