History & Persons

Klim Zhukov11.01.2026

On January 7, 1988, the 9th Parachute Company of the 345th Guards Separate Parachute Regiment began fighting against Afghan rebels, sometimes referred to as mujahideen, at Hill 3234. In late 1987, the DRA government garrison and local residents in the border town of Khost in Khost Province, besieged by Afghan rebels, found themselves in a […]

Tony Rocchi07.01.2026

The Russian Revolution of 1917-1922 as the Apocalypse of the 20th Century. More than 100 years have passed since the Russian Revolution of 1917-1922, but, in so many respects, this revolution is still a great unknown for us. We can say the same about other great revolutions in Europe. Asked what he thought was the […]

Dmitry Litvinov21.12.2025

Some believe that the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II in March 1917 was the result of a “conspiracy of Duma deputies and generals.” This belief persists despite the fact that the February events in Petrograd have been studied in considerable detail by historical scholars. During World War I, Russia experienced a veritable boom in the […]

Andrey Vedyaev19.11.2025

In the last days of November, 1941, the Nazi invaders approached Moscow, threatening to capture it. During these difficult days, Soviet people stood up to defend the capital, performing unprecedented acts of bravery, including behind enemy lines. The heroism of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a saboteur in the intelligence department of the Western Front headquarters, who died […]

Klim Zhukov25.10.2025

Pedro Téllez-Girón y Velasco, 3rd Duke of Osuna, was a true hooligan and aristocrat from Andalusia (just look at his mustache). He was born in 1574 into a wildly talented family, a branch of the wealthy de Guzmán family, Dukes of Medina Sidonia. His mother was also very talented — from the family of the […]

Tony Rocchi20.10.2025

In his own way, Vladimir Lenin had to rebel against his own Bolshevik Party to lead the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Provisional Government in the October Revolution of 1917. Beginning with his April theses almost immediately after his return to Russia from Switzerland, Lenin’s calls to launch a socialist revolution left many Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, and […]

Klim Zhukov13.10.2025

On October 12, 1771, Mikhail Miloradovich was born. He was a Russian infantry general (1809), one of the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812, the military governor-general of St. Petersburg, and a member of the State Council since 1818. He participated in the Italian and Swiss campaigns, always leading his regiment into battle, and […]

Yuri Chekalin06.10.2025

The story of peasant girl Roza Shanina from the Arkhangelsk village of Yedma foreshadowed nothing great. The daughter of a milkmaid and a lumberjack, Rosa grew up in a modest village surrounded by forests. Little did her fellow villagers know that their young Rosa would go on to become known as the “Invisible Terror of […]

Klim Zhukov05.10.2025

On October 2, 1452, Richard III of York was born, the last representative of the male Plantagenet line on the English throne. Richard III was the brother of Edward IV. He assumed the throne after the illegitimacy of the young Edward V was proven. He was defeated and killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field […]

Tony Rocchi04.10.2025

From Multi-Party State to One-Party State: the disintegration and collapse of non-Bolshevik parties and movements in the Russian Revolution. The former Russian Empire was the most multi-party country in Europe. However, by the early 1920s, the Soviet Union, its successor state, had become Europe’s biggest one-party state. The history of how the Bolsheviks or Communists […]

Stolen Victory of the 9th Company

The Apocalypse of 1917

Was There a “Conspiracy” in February 1917?

The Feat of a Chekist

The Glory of the World

Lenin—Rebel Against the Bolshevik Party in 1917

Life and Death of Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich

Invisible Terror of East Prussia

Life and Legacy of Richard III of York

From Multi-Party Russia to One-Party State

Stolen Victory of the 9th Company

Congress Implementing 2026 Plan

Will the American Civil War Start in Minnesota?

Revolutionary of Russian Theater: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko