Alexander Palladin

Alexander Palladin25.12.2024

Upon his return to Moscow from Crimea after the well-known events of August 1991, Gorbachev appointed Grigory Revenko as the head of the Presidential Administration instead of Valery Boldin who was arrested for participating in the State Emergency Committee. Revenko brought with him a group of trusted people, including Anatoly Sazonov. He was made the […]

Alexander Palladin19.12.2024

In mid-80s, I bought a photo album with this title in a Washington-based book store. As a result, by pure chance, I learned about Russia’s pioneer of color photography who at the beginning of the 20th century carried out a titanic task of taking hundreds of superb pictures of what used to be called Russian […]

Alexander Palladin16.12.2024

In the Russo-Japanese War that began 120 years ago, Russia suffered defeat which was also caused by its inability to wage properly what we now call information wars. St. Petersburg-based contemporary weekly magazine “Chronicles of the War With Japan” published an article headlined “Japanese Propaganda In Europe”, noting that propaganda of Japanese and Japanophile ideas […]

Alexander Palladin12.12.2024

Once in 1974 when I was stationed in Canada, Alexander Yakovlev, our ambassador in that country, shared with me his views on Academician Andrei Sakharov who renewed his public attacks on Kremlin’s policy. Before his assignment in Ottawa Yakovlev worked at Central Committee as the actual head of Agitprop and was quite knowledgeable about the […]

Alexander Palladin11.12.2024

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I Soviet authorities upheld the decision to declare Nagorski persona non grata. Thus, Melor Georgievich managed to return to the United States only 8 years later, when our country hit Catastroika, as Alexander Zinoviev, Soviet philosopher, writer, and sociologist, branded Perestroika. In 1990, Sturua started […]

Alexander Palladin10.12.2024

10 days before the US presidential election, Izvestia’s film crew sent from Moscow to cover the event was detained at the Washington airport. The Russian reporters had valid entry visas, but their equipment was taken away, and they were interrogated for several hours. Cameraman’s visa was cancelled and he had to return to Moscow. Which […]

Alexander Palladin09.12.2024

World War I Heroes in Memoriam: Part I Since 2017, on December 9 Russia celebrates the annual Day of Heroes of the Fatherland. One of them was my grandfather Pyotr Vasilyevich who got two St. George’s Crosses during World War I. He belonged to the ancient Korchagin family, who lived in the Ryazan region at […]

Alexander Palladin07.12.2024

In 1982, Charles Higham’s book “The Untold Story of Errol Flynn” was published in the United States. Sent to print on the eve of yet another anniversary of the Japanese attack on the main base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, it was dedicated to Errol Flynn, Hollywood actor of Australian origin and […]

Alexander Palladin03.12.2024

Since 2009, December 1 has been celebrated in Russia as the Hockey Day, commemorating the first national ice hockey championship, lauched in the USSR on December 1, 1946. In our country the Hockey gained popularity so quickly that only 7 years later, on March 7, 1954, the Soviet national team on its very first try […]

Alexander Palladin29.11.2024

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 1 and Part 2. In Chemulpo Jack London found out that the war he was supposed to cover had begun a week before and that on its very first day after a brief battle with a Japanese squadron, Russian sailors instead of surrending sank their […]

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Alexander Palladin

The End of an Era

Photographs for the Tsar

Losing Info Wars Costs Dearly

Perestroika Architect Yakovlev And H-Bomb’s Father Sakharov

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part II

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I

World War I Heroes In Memoriam: Part II

The Unknown Role of Errol Flynn

“Bobrov and His Team Are True Champions!”

Jack London Covered The War Where My Ancestors Fought: Part 3

Happy Holidays!

The End of an Era

Coming Face to Face with Terrorism in the Russian Empire

What Beliefs Does the Orthodox Church Have About Birth Control?