History & Persons

Yuri Chekalin07.07.2023

The Assumption, Archangel and Annunciation Cathedrals, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower, the Grand Duke’s Palace, the walls and towers of the Kremlin — all these structures were erected in a little over thirty years, when Moscow and the whole country were actively built in the 15th century. As a result, the monumental architectural and […]

Yuri Chekalin22.06.2023

Last year marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin’s visit to Japan. Gagarin had not only visited this exotic country, but also returned the name of our legendary intelligence officer Richard Sorge from there. How did it happen? To the Land of the Rising Sun Yu.A. Gagarin flew on May 21, 1962, together with […]

George Viereck29.03.2023

Hitler’s interview to Viereck. In the collection of Dr. Vasily E. Molodyakov has an exclusive material: Hitler’s interview with George Viereck in 1923. It was published once, in the American Monthly, but has not been republished since then. Today we are republishing it in its entirety as it may be of interest to historians and […]

Yuri Chekalin10.01.2023

By 1908, the time was right for a new kind of agency to protect America. The United States was, well, united, with its borders stretching from coast to coast and only two landlocked states left to officially join the union. Inventions like the telephone, the telegraph, and the railroad had seemed to shrink its vast […]

Yuri Chekalin04.01.2023

Emilio Kosterlitzky was one of the most colorful characters to ever serve as a special agent. A cultured, Russian-born man of the world, he spent four decades in the Russian and Mexican militaries, rising to the rank of brigadier general in Mexico. To avoid the dangerous tribulations of the ongoing Mexican Revolution, he settled down […]

Viktor Alksnis11.12.2022

In those tragic years, I happened to be in the thick of things, to visit the offices of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, to try to convince them to abandon the course towards the collapse of the great Power. To speak from the rostrum of the union parliament, warning of an impending catastrophe. Trying to wake up […]

Ilya Ratkovsky28.10.2022

Yuri Chekalin: What attracts you to work as a historian? Ilya Ratkovsky: In the profession of a historian, there are several incentives that help me work and develop. First of all, it is an opportunity to understand the history of your country in the most key moments. The history of the revolution, the Civil War […]

Yuri Chekalin26.08.2022

Chapter 1 “In the cold, in the cold From familiar places Others call us cities … “ V. Vysotsky In 1854 under the muzzles of the guns, the American Commodore Matthew Perry forced the Japanese to sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the United States and “open” to the world. This event, like […]

Yuri Chekalin08.08.2022

For a long time I wanted to talk about little-studied events like conspiracies in the army, terrorism and the like, so I decided to publish several essays on the history of Japan in the 1920s and 30s. Of course, this will affect politics, economics, sociology, and even culture. I thought for a long time where […]

Yuri Chekalin23.06.2022

The romantic love story of a Russian prisoner of war and a Japanese nurse served as the plot for the musical Oath on a Coin (Chikai no Koin) by the Japanese Botchan Theater (坊っちゃん劇場, Botchan Theater) from Ehime Prefecture (愛媛県, Ehime-ken). For almost 30 years, every second Saturday of the month, about a hundred students […]

How did the Kremlin become red?

Yuri Gagarin saves Richard Sorge from oblivion

Hitler, the German Explosive

The Birth of the FBI

The Russian Cossack Turned Special Agent

The Day of the Death of the USSR

Ilya Ratkovsky About How to be a Hystorian

Japanese in America: A Brief Overview

The First Wave of Russian Emigration to Japan

Love Oath on Gold Coin

How a Chemistry Student Defeated the Tsarist Generals

Netanyahu Calls Britain an “Islamic Country with Nuclear Weapons”

Where Is All That American Oil Really Going?

Why We’re a Problem