History & Persons

Gleb Targonsky16.04.2026

Today we’ll talk about the cute and long dachshund. The word “dachshund” itself comes from the German “Dachshund,” which can be translated as “badger dog.” However, in modern Germany, this word is obsolete; Germans use the word “Dackel.” Historians debate exactly when dachshunds first appeared in Germany. Some, citing references in 16th- and 17th-century chronicles […]

Egor Yakovlev15.04.2026

The Russian Empire and the United States signed the treaty on March 18 (30), 1867, in Washington. The United States received the entire Alaska Peninsula, the Alexander and Kodiak archipelagos, the Aleutian Islands, and several islands in the Bering Sea. The United States paid $7.2 million in gold for all these territories! There’s a stereotype […]

Alexander Rimov12.04.2026

“He said, ‘Let’s go!‘ and waved his hand, as if he were flying down Piterskaya Street, he was flying over the Earth.” On April 12, 1961, the world stood still, but exactly 65 years later, we look at this date differently. Not only as a triumph of technology, but also as a parable about a […]

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 […]

Egor Yakovlev27.02.2026

Who was Red Army soldier Matrosov and how did he perform his heroic act? On February 27, 1943, Private Alexander Matrosov, in a battle near the village of Chernushki in the Loknyansky district of the Kalinin region, secured the success of the attacking unit at the cost of his own life, according to the official […]

Egor Yakovlev21.02.2026

Dragunov developed about thirty different models of small arms, which are used by armies around the world. And his brainchild, the SVD sniper rifle, was called by Kalashnikov “the most perfect of all models of this type”. Yevgeny Dragunov was born on February 20, 1920. He lived in Izhevsk. His interest in weapons began during […]

Klim Zhukov18.02.2026

Why is Lenin remembered all over the world? We are told that Lenin is a thing of the past, yet they continue to vilify him, spending millions on books and films that attempt to discredit his name and distort his ideas. Is it just because he was a great revolutionary and the founder of the […]

Kirill Benediktov08.02.2026

In 2012, Barack Obama publicly humiliated Trump at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Trump was one of the prominent supporters of the theory that Obama was not born in the US, but in Kenya, and therefore was elected president in violation of the Constitution. During the dinner, Obama showed journalists his birth certificate […]

Yuri Chekalin02.02.2026

In times of turmoil, when we seem to hit rock bottom, with newspaper headlines screaming bloody murder and talking heads on TV predicting disasters of Biblical proportions, it’s always nice to just sit back, relax, take a deep breath, and to reflect on events long ago. Take American second President, John Adams. His biographer John […]

Yuri Chekalin19.01.2026

On January 8, 1918, US President Woodrow Wilson presented the Fourteen Points to Congress — a draft peace treaty that would establish US hegemony in international politics and ensure favorable conditions for American monopolies in the global market. From the very beginning of World War I, Wilson had been nurturing and expressing the idea of […]

A Brave Little Dog for the German Kaiser

Why did Russia sell Alaska?

65 Years Since Gagarin’s Flight

Who Killed Pushkin?

The Feat of Alexander Matrosov

The Creator of the Izhevsk Rifle: Designer Yevgeny Dragunov

Memory of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Revenge is a Dish that’s Served Cold

American Leaders

The American World Doctrine of Dominance

A Brave Little Dog for the German Kaiser

Why did Russia sell Alaska?

The Last of the MAGAs

Nanny Robots Will Raise Japanese Children