History & Persons

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2024

On the last day of the outgoing year 1900, in the village of Rzhaventsy in the Bessarabian province of the Russian Empire, the most charming and attractive intelligence officer of the 20th century, the “queen of recruitment” Elizaveta Yulievna Zarubina, née Esther Rosenzweig, was born. She penetrated Trotsky’s plans, was a liaison for SS Hauptsturmführer […]

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 […]

Klim Zhukov15.07.2024

On July 9, 1943, Operation Husky began — the landing of Western Allied troops in Sicily. Despite the complexity of the operation and the successful evacuation of local troops, its results were impressive: Italy left the war, the Mediterranean Sea was open to navigation. In turn, after Italy’s withdrawal from the war on September 8, […]

Tony Rocchi07.07.2024

In its own way, terrorism became a mass movement in the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907. However, few historians consider terrorism a mass movement but regard it as something committed by individuals or small groups. The Revolution of 1905-1907 was the first European revolution with a strong terrorist component. Politically motivated murders did happen in previous […]

Yuri Chekalin06.07.2024

On November 28, 1943, a meeting of the leaders of three countries — allies in the anti-Hitler coalition — began in Tehran. One of its main participants, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, recalled the Tehran summit, which went down in world history, with such specific humor. “On one side of me, with his paws crossed, […]

Tony Rocchi04.07.2024

How we regard the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907 often determines how we understand the nature of political terrorism in the Russian Empire. If we only focus on the mass movements of the revolution, then terrorism during this period remains the Great Unknown. What makes it so ironic about terrorism being the Great Unknown is that […]

Tony Rocchi29.06.2024

Because political terrorism in the Russian Empire remains the Great Unknown, we will go on having huge difficulties in understanding many tendencies in terrorism in today’s world. While it is true that terrorism happens under specific historical circumstances in different countries and periods during different periods, the fact remains that the history of political terrorism […]

Alexander Schmidke22.06.2024

Today, 81 years ago. Lindemannstadt, occupied territory of the Leningrad region under the control of the military administration of Army Group North. June 22, 1943 / Gatchina, Leningrad region. May 2020 To mark the anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union, the occupation authorities organized public events on June 22, 1942 and 1943, called […]

Natalia Tanshina21.06.2024

On July 2, 1644, the famous Battle of Marston Moor took place, in which the parliamentary army under the command of Oliver Cromwell and the Earl of Manchester was victorious. This was the first serious victory of the parliamentary army. But the Civil War in England had been going on for almost two years. Moreover, […]

Klim Zhukov01.06.2024

On April 5, 1945, Georgian Nazis retrained as anti-fascists and started an uprising. If you type the phrase “The last battle of the Second World War” into a search engine, it will carefully return a set of links leading to materials telling about the settlement “Polyany” in Czechoslovakia, or about battles in Slovenia, also known […]

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Cherchez la Femme

A Little About the Aristocracy and the Elite

Anti-Hitler Coalition in Italy

A Mass Movement that is a Great Unknown of the Revolution of 1905-1907

Tehran-43 or Operation Countenance

Terrorism — the Great Unknown of the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907

Why Terrorism in the Russian Empire Remains the Great Unknown

Tragedy of One Day of the Great War

Battle of Marston Moor

Uprising of Georgian Collaborators on the Island of Texel

160 Years Since the Opening of the First Congress of the First International

How Schools Are Teaching Children Not to Read

AI and Power

The Cat