Natalia Tanshina

Natalia Tanshina27.03.2026

Or the question of whether the historian’s main virtue is skepticism?! I’ve written many times about Count Nesselrode and the caricatural image he left in history. And all based on the testimonies of contemporaries. They always spoke the truth and were extremely objective, of course. Who would doubt them?! It wasn’t just the chancellor who […]

Natalia Tanshina20.12.2025

These issues interest me as both a teacher and a historian. Modern students read little, and only what’s available online. If a book isn’t online, it doesn’t exist for them. They hardly ever go to libraries. A separate issue is the use of AI. For an intelligent person, AI is a tool, facilitating information gathering, […]

Natalia Tanshina06.04.2025

The policy of French President Macron, who sometimes recalls the Resistance movement, is in fact completely analogous to the policy of Marshal Petain and those Frenchmen who participated in the war against the USSR! It is characteristic that their mobilization took place under the traditional slogans of the fight against Bolshevism and for a “new […]

Natalia Tanshina20.09.2024

The West loves (and loved) to declare its tolerance and to accuse others, those who disagree, of lacking it. And tolerance — only in relation to itself. Let’s take the religious issue, in relation to which this term is often used. As is known, in 1054 the previously united Christian Church split into the Western, […]

Natalia Tanshina30.07.2024

The French media rushed to wash away the country’s reputation, which had been badly tarnished by the dirty waters of the Seine. If the first reaction of even the French media was rather shocking, the newspapers were full of images of the severed head of Marie Antoinette, scenes of mockery of Christianity, published dissatisfied statements […]

Natalia Tanshina26.07.2024

“This is a holiday for the elite”, “absolutely no interest”, “the next games in Paris can only be held in a hundred years, when all those who remember these will die”, “a society that prefers watching sports games to working and treating the sick is a society that will be destroyed by barbarism”, “we are […]

Natalia Tanshina25.07.2024

We have long been witnesses to fundamental shifts in the system of international relations and the formation of new systems of international relations. All previous systems were formed as a result of major international conflicts. For now we are following the same scenario. The West is actively preparing for a global war, increasing the arms […]

Natalia Tanshina21.07.2024

Not about the “elite”, but about the genuine Russian elite!! I’m proofreading my article about Princess Lieven. She lived abroad almost all her life, first for 22 years in London, with her ambassador husband, then in Paris. She left for France without the permission of Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich, and he wrote to her husband in […]

Natalia Tanshina20.07.2024

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The French are discussing the courageous act of the mayor of Paris to swim in the Seine. By the way, Madame Mayor swam not alone, but with two high-ranking officials: one of the patrons of the Olympic Games organizing committee and the prefect of the Ile-de-France region. The French are more concerned about the huge […]

Natalia Tanshina09.07.2024

A significant date is approaching — 235 years since the beginning of the French Revolution. Which we called either the Great French Bourgeois Revolution or the French Bourgeois Revolution (without the great one, because the great one is only ours, the October Revolution, because it is socialist). Now they also call it ambiguously: some, the […]

Who Killed Pushkin?

Digitalization: Education and the Falsification of History

Has Macron Forgotten the Fate of Nazi Puppet Petain?

On the Issue of Tolerance of the West

How the French are Trying to Turn their Shame into Triumph

“Boycott”, “This Sucks”, “This is a Stalinist Holiday”…

The Crisis of the West or the Third World War Has Already Begun

A Little About the Aristocracy and the Elite

The Most Expensive Swim in the Seine

The French Revolution’s 235th Anniversary

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old