History & Persons

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, […]

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 […]

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History & Persons

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

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

The End of an Era

Coming Face to Face with Terrorism in the Russian Empire

What Beliefs Does the Orthodox Church Have About Birth Control?

On the Birthday of Leonid Brezhnev