History & Persons

Klim Zhukov30.08.2024

State-of-the art accents of cinema in the Russian Empire and the First World War. At the height of the First World War, the mood of society changed from euphoria and agitation to ridicule the enemy (films: “Down with the German Yoke” and “Glory to us, death to the enemies”) to fatigue and a sense of […]

Andrey Vedyaev29.08.2024

Among the founders and most prominent representatives of Soviet illegal intelligence, the name of General Eitingon occupies a special place. By and large, there were and are no equals to him. And I am certainly proud of my friendship with his daughter Muza and son Leonid. At the same time, until quite recently, the name […]

Klim Zhukov27.08.2024

Matvey Platov was not only a Cossack General, he also became a Victorious Hero and a Symbol of Russian military valor and courage, who was able to conquer the most incredible circumstances. Matvey Ivanovich Platov was born on August 19, 1753 — Ataman of the Don Cossack Army, General of Cavalry. Participant in the Russian-Turkish […]

Klim Zhukov19.08.2024

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Natalia Androsova, great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I, citizen of the USSR Of the descendants of the House of Romanov, Natalia Nikolaevna Androsova (1917-1999), née Princess Iskander — great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I, and her brother Kirill (1915-1992) lived their entire lives in the USSR. The princess was born during the February Revolution, when her family […]

Andrey Vedyaev10.08.2024

The founder of domestic sabotage intelligence is Senior Major of State Security Yakov Serebryansky. A special place in the state security system is occupied by sabotage intelligence. Its purpose, unlike foreign policy intelligence, is not just to collect information about important strategic objects and military and political figures of the enemy, but to penetrate these […]

Kirill Benediktov06.08.2024

No, Slave Owners! A genealogical study by Northern Irish historian Stephen McCracken reveals that Kamala Harris’s paternal great-grandfather, Hamilton Brown, was born in County Antrim in 1776, the year the US Declaration of Independence was adopted. Brown emigrated to Jamaica, then a British colony, and became a major slave owner, employing black slaves to work […]

Andrey Vedyaev03.08.2024

Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin will forever go down in the history of foreign intelligence as the head of the first national intelligence service, created in our country in 1938-1939 through the efforts and genius of the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. By the mid-thirties, Soviet intelligence had been captured by international adventurers from […]

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, […]

History & Persons

The secret of Bauer’s films

High Espionage

The Life of the Cossack General Platov

Great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I and Citizen of the USSR

Reconnaissance for Defeat

Is Kamala Harris a Descendant of Slaves?

Chief of Intelligence

Cherchez la Femme

A Little About the Aristocracy and the Elite

Anti-Hitler Coalition in Italy

Two-Faced Yakovlev: Part One

Who Won The Election?

The Soviet Newsman Speaks in the USA

Unforgettable Parade