The saying "Bread and water is a soldier's food" was not born out of nowhere. In the campaigns, the carts lagged behind, so the crackers were saved. A guardsman rescued - an old man in charge of feeding a group of soldiers. At any long halt, a fire was made, crackers were crumbled into boiling water, salt was added to this mash, linseed or hemp oil was poured - and the stew was ready
The Nazi leader flew to the occupied territories of the Soviet Union not only on short-term visits, but even lived here for months
When I see photos of this watch on the Internet, I always remember my father. He wore these in the days of the USSR and later I inherited them. Of course, he himself wore Montana later, but he also used this watch a lot
We have already recalled the most popular children's books among schoolchildren of the USSR and modern adolescents, and also learned which books are undeservedly forgotten and practically inaccessible for modern schoolchildren in paper form. Now let's remember that we, Soviet schoolchildren, loved to read by genre. Of course, this series will be opened by science fiction
Falsification in St. Petersburg in everything. For example, the fact that this city was supposedly built by Peter and Menshikov. Today the maps of Great Tartary are open and those who wish can be convinced that at the mouth of the Neva, in the place of modern St. Petersburg, there is a completely different city - the Russian ORESHEK
“Science considers it impossible” is a great reason to relax and go about your business, which is very important, because “you have to take everything from life,” that is, die as soon as possible and more stupid to “live until Friday”, be horrified by “Monday tomorrow” and again harness a senseless fuss
The fact that civilization returned to the city quite recently can be seen from the engravings - plants grow on the ruins, even young trees, and this takes at least several years. Consequently, the city has been "unattended" for a long time - no "Soviet power", a mess and complete devastation
The story of the victory of Emperor Trajan over the mighty barbarian kingdom is not just a story from the pen. This event, whose glory is carved in 155 scenes on the spiral frieze of the mighty monumental column, which still fascinates
Today he would be called a superman, but, unfortunately, the name of Shavarsh Karapetyan is hardly known to the general public. A professional athlete, swimmer-submariner, multiple world champion by some miracle constantly found himself where tragedies and disasters happened, and came to the aid of people
The picture on the right was probably recognized by everyone. This portrait of Emelyan Pugachev is considered the only reliable image. Whether this is so is not so important today. You also heard about the person who is shown in the photo on the left, but you hardly knew right away
Everyone is sure that Great Britain was never occupied by Germany, but this is not entirely true. The Channel Islands off the coast of France were occupied, they belonged to Great Britain. It will be very useful for every Russian person to find out exactly how this happened
It is noteworthy that advertising in Tsarist Russia was surprisingly highly developed. Colorful posters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like an encyclopedia, reflect the spirit and consumer culture of that distant era. Even a century and a half ago, there were so many goods and services in our country that businessmen actively ordered the production of advertisements from artists and poets
Here's a selection of World War I photographs taken on the battlefields and training camps of the United States and its allies. All these pictures were censored at one time so as not to cause defeatism among the population and not to give secrets to the enemy side
Mark Stepanovich Redkin
The Russian Empire was famous for its talented people in various fields. There were also outstanding photographers in Russia. The pioneer of world color photography Prokudin-Gorsky is known as the owner of the largest collection of color photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia
Photography is an amazing technology that allows a person with a camera to capture a moment in history and keep it forever. How many interesting and unique photographs of correspondents are still gathering dust in the archives? Fortunately, something like that breaks into the information space
Scientists have discovered that Vikings sometimes carried useless decorative swords that could not be used as real weapons
Kulaga is an almost forgotten delicacy. Once - one of the most beloved in Russia. Kulaga was used for colds, nervous, heart, kidney, cholelithiasis, liver diseases. At the same time, kulaga possessed an exceptional, discreetly sweet-sourish pleasant taste
Previously believed that the lake. Baikal is not on the maps in the recent past, because did not find its modern outlines on old maps of Tartary. But it is like a lowland flooded by a river. Those. there is a river flowing in and the same Angara river - flowing out in one straight line:
Now, when gasoline prices have skyrocketed, it seems to us, to the skies, many have remembered the USSR. About how good it was there and gasoline cost literally a penny there. Is it so?
By the middle of the 19th century, in Europe and the Russian Empire, the voice of women began to sound louder: the fair sex began an active struggle for their rights. Despite the fact that, in general, the socio-economic development of the Russian Empire lagged behind that of Europe, the legislation on women's rights was more progressive. And it concerned mainly property issues
War is often associated with loss and destruction. But the world does not stand still, and even in the midst of hostilities there is a place for progress. Tea bags, sausages and even zippers - all of this we have largely due to the terrible events of a century ago. Here are the top 10 discoveries made or gained in popularity during the First World War
When socialists say that a society freed from capital can make work enjoyable and abolish all work that is disgusting or harmful to health, they are usually laughed at
The temples are strikingly similar, but the builders were completely unrelated to each other. The Khmer and Maya were separated by the Pacific Ocean … This testifies to a deeper symmetrical religion, culture and tradition, which are the same, despite the huge distance separating the two cultures, which scholars still ignore
No one has lived on Ross Island since World War II. Now it most of all resembles the scenery for the movie "The Jungle Book". But it was once called the "Paris of the East" - for its amazing architecture and an advanced level of social life for those times, completely uncharacteristic for the tropical islands of this region
"The Great Wall of China". In ancient times it was called "the eye of Mewar"
British photographer Samuel Bourne spent seven productive years in India. He arrived in Calcutta in 1863 to take photographs professionally. After working as a bank clerk, he was fond of photography and decided to turn his hobby into a main occupation after the success of his work at local and international exhibitions in Nottingham and London. In this collection of portrait, landscape, architectural photographs taken in India in the 19th century
Unable to make a career in their homeland, these officers went to a distant unfamiliar Russia, which was able to appreciate their talents and abilities
At all times and all eras, people wanted to know the future and their destiny. The world seemed huge and terrible, full of hostile forces, and the theme of death runs like a black thread through the entire history of mankind
All 6,000 maps published in National Geographic magazine from 1888 to the present are available online for the first time. They are presented in high resolution and differ in the widest variety of covered places, themes and events: from maps of constellations and stars to the ocean floor, bird migrations, the Kremlin and the origin of flowers
What I’ll tell you today is written in any history textbook. But all the same it will be a discovery for you, simply because this information is scattered throughout history and you did not see the big picture
Humanity has always strived for happiness and wanted to build a just society. In the USSR and other countries, attempts were made to build a society of equal opportunities. Many researchers have agreed that the abolition of private property, economic planning and social achievement can collectively be called a socialist society
Many consider history to be boring science, full of facts, names and dates. But in fact, over the millennia, people have done many bad deeds, which are usually kept silent about in school encyclopedias
The recent planetary catastrophe is supported by the research of Alexander von Humboldt. Back in the 19th century, he argued that the North Pole was not so long ago in the Great Lakes region in North America, that Marco Polo lived in the capital of Tartary, and Kara-Kurum, and its inhabitants were no different from the cities and their inhabitants in Poland. or Hungary
I have already written about the finds in Siberia of the 17th century and about the destroyed cities of Dauria according to the descriptions of Nikolaas Witsen from his book "Northern and Eastern Tartary". But there is also such an album by GI Spassky: "Album of views, drawings of buildings and ancient inscriptions in Siberia"
The Moscow Kremlin is a territory that preserves the memory of eight centuries of Russian history, but the material evidence of antiquity today is practically invisible to the visitor in many of its parts
Sforza Castle is somewhere similar to the Moscow Kremlin. More precisely, the Kremlin is locked. The rebuilding of the Moscow Kremlin at the end of the 15th century was led by Italian architects, at least who had seen the castle built not long before in Milan, and, perhaps, someone took part in the construction. It is possible that even some drawings were used
Jean de Valois Bourbon, Countess de la Motte, Countess Gachet, she is Countess de Croix, the heroine of A. Dumas's novel "The Queen's Necklace", which also served to create the image of Milady in the novel "The Three Musketeers", really ended her life in Crimea
By 1916, the Russian navy consisted of 55 submarines. But there is still an idea that Russia was then "bastard" … The Prime Minister of the Empire P.A. Stolypin said: "Give us twenty years of peace, internal and external, and you will not recognize today's Russia."
The debate about how and why this tragedy happened is becoming more and more acute. What were the reasons for the deportation? What actually happened on the territory of Crimea during the war? There are very few living witnesses of those events left who could tell about how everything really happened