Chronicles of the past 2024, May

For a long time, persons were kept at the court of the rulers of the Old World, whose task was to amuse the owner and his guests. It was believed that a jester is a fool who was allowed a lot of things that were not allowed by etiquette even to the king himself

“Of all the arts, cinema is the most important for us,” asserted the Soviet regime, for which cinema became an instrument of propaganda, and for directors it was hard labor. The authorities checked the scripts, controlled the work of the film crews, and the films themselves underwent numerous checks before screenings

Perhaps one of the reasons for the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s was the search for a part of the "enemies of the people" from among the provocateurs of the tsarist secret police. By 1917, the secret police had only full-time agents of about 10 thousand people among the revolutionary parties. Including temporary, freelance agents

In the 1920s, a powerful eugenic medicine movement emerged in the USSR. For example, the eugenicist Davidenkov suggested “to conduct a general eugenic examination of the population and encourage the most valuable citizens to reproduce. Those who have received the lowest eugenic mark are to be sterilized. " In 1936, the destruction of the eugenic school in the USSR began

The history of the World Exhibitions began in the middle of the 19th century. At first, at the Expo, states simply measured their industrial achievements, but by 1939 the futurological aspect came to the fore. Now countries wanted not only to show what they had achieved, but also to present "teasers" of upcoming projects, as well as to predict the future

Faberge eggs have always been associated with the Russian imperial family. Jewelry was made especially for the ruling monarchs and decorated with the most expensive stones. The collection miraculously survived after the October Revolution and has survived to this day with almost its full complement. How did the history of the famous Faberge eggs begin and why are works of art shrouded in a mass of secrets?

The huge and powerful country of the USSR was distinguished by the regular development of new territories, developments and inventions, and the scale of construction. Of course, no one really heard anything about the fashionable word "design", and they did not use it. But there were designers, as well as graphic designers, and quite a few, and very talented ones. And the most interesting thing is that there are solutions that have passed through time and exist even now

Boyar showdowns did not stop throughout the history of the Muscovy

The change of power in Russia is always a painful procedure. In the 18th century, it was complicated by confusion in the laws, which led to regular conspiracies and coups

Even Elizabeth II has a couple of old jewelry of the Russian imperial family

Punishment was an integral part of education and training in Russia. "Domostroy", created during the era of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the middle of the 16th century, even included separate items: "How to raise your children in the fear of God" and "How to teach children and save them by fear"

In tsarist Russia, compulsory universal primary education was introduced. The myth is used to belittle the merits of the Soviet government in the elimination of illiteracy

In the middle of the 19th century, after the final annexation of lands along the Amur and in Primorye, Russia received a huge and almost deserted land. In addition, it is separated from the places of residence of the bulk of the population by hundreds, even thousands of miles of Siberian taiga and off-road

Tsar's days in Yekaterinburg gather thousands of believers. The July liturgy and the procession of the cross are becoming something of an unofficial state holiday, because in addition to the four traditional branches of government, our bureaucratic baobab has long grown a fifth - the religious

Like the globalist elite today, the tsar kept significant capital abroad: for example, in England - 200 million of those rubles

The general condition of the royal family - financial assets abroad, stocks, bank deposits, land, businesses, buildings, jewelry, etc. - can be estimated at 16-18 billion "those" rubles. Or 15 trillion. current rubles

Every era has its positive and negative features. Therefore, it is not entirely objective to pull out individual episodes of perversion and judge the entire era by them. Although the number of hard-hitting facts in itself can give an approximate assessment of the mores of a particular historical period. But, we repeat, it is an approximate, not an exact

The historical ruins are mesmerizing. In a vast country and ruins are endless. One of these monuments of our recent history stretches for hundreds of kilometers along the Arctic Circle. This is the abandoned Salekhard-Igarka railway, which is also called the "Dead Road"

We are accustomed to the fact that the works of Alexandre Dumas could be called historical with a very big stretch. His mere expression that history is the rusty nail on which he hangs his novel should already be a beacon-sized warning signal. But still

Royal amusements often result in difficult and sometimes dangerous work for those people who are forced to arrange these entertainments. So, with the spread of falconry, in the Middle Ages the profession of hunting bird catchers appeared. In order to get especially valuable gyrfalcon, these people made long journeys to the northern regions. In Russia, they were called "pomytchiki falcons"

November 28, 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the oldest Kronstadt submarine formation, which is the legal successor of the Baltic Sea submarine forces of the Imperial Navy of Russia, and on March 19, 2006 our country celebrated the 100th anniversary of its submarine forces

Nobody questions the talent of A.S. Pushkin, nor his prophetic gift embodied in poetry and prose. After all, we see how, for example, in The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, the poet is trying to give us an idea of the ancient history of Russia. And what is the metaphor of a learned cat walking "on a chain in a circle"

The investigation is being conducted by Igor Anatolyevich Kudryavtsev, a well-known lawyer who at various times headed the legal departments of the largest Russian companies. He began his practical career in the Moscow prosecutor's office, having worked for a total of about ten years as a senior investigator of the district prosecutor's office, prosecutor of the investigation department of the Moscow prosecutor's office

In 2010, an event took place in Russia that went unnoticed by the general public. Of course, in our time of pursuit of material wealth, is it worth paying attention to the book of the monk, and later the abbot of the Roman throne, Mavro Orbini? Meanwhile, it would be worthwhile to understand who the Russians are

The work of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is of particular importance for the Russian people. Probably no other author has so fully manifested the Russian spirit in his works. The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs, which was written by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in Boldino in 1833, was no exception

Every citizen of Russia, the countries of the former Soviet Union and not only knows the Spasskaya clock tower, which we regularly see on New Year's Eve on TV. There is nothing strange or surprising on the dial. But this was not always the case. In ancient times, there were no arrows on them at all. In addition, instead of the traditional twelve numbers, there were seventeen

During the reign of Peter I, Russia became an important participant in European politics. The peak of power came in the decades after the Napoleonic wars

The official historians tell us about the sister of Peter I as a notorious reactionary who opposed her brother-reformer. In fact, everything was not the same as always

We all know from textbooks that the current St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg is already the fourth in a row

You can often hear that the Russians are not a people, but a kind of hodgepodge. That this is a young ethnos, who came from nowhere. This is a lie, but the truth is that the culture of the Rus, Slavic-Aryans served as the cradle for most other civilizations

Near Senno, where I was in 1941, more than two thousand tanks and self-propelled guns converged. Only we were gouged there and driven to the east, so they write about the Kursk Bulge and Prokhorovka. And about Senno they were silent and will remain silent

It was the assault engineer-sapper brigades of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's reserve that were the most numerous and strongest among the Soviet special forces during the Second World War. The fighters for the ShISBr were selected especially carefully

The tomb of the "prince" of the 4th century was discovered in 2005 during the construction of an industrial zone in the town of Poprad

Leptis Magna is the oldest city in Libya, which flourished during the Roman Empire. The ruins of the city are located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, 130 kilometers east of Tripoli in the city of Al-Khums. Due to its layout, this place was named "Rome in Africa"

There are no less harmful stereotypes about the first third of the New Age and especially about its military affairs than about the ill-fated "dark" Middle Ages. Most of the myths stem from a resolute unwillingness to try to perceive the situation of that time in its entirety and not to try to analyze it piece by piece. And the most indicative of all in this area is military affairs. After all, as you know, "war is the father of everything"

Weapons of mass destruction are staggering in their proliferation and intimidating in their effectiveness. This also applies to biological weapons. That is why its use is prohibited by the provisions of the 1925 Geneva Convention. But before that, it was often used in conquest operations. Moreover, contrary to popular belief about the "youth" of biological weapons, the first cases of its use that have come down to us are more than a thousand years old

In 1987, the story of the "hooligan pilot" Matthias Rust, who landed right in the middle of Moscow, shocked the whole world. However, this incident was not the only unusual episode in Soviet aviation. A couple of years later, a fighter "escaped" from the USSR. Moreover, it was the plane that turned out to be a fugitive, because it flew more than 900 kilometers … without a pilot in the cockpit

From the Spartans in our time, only legends and tales remained, from which it followed that this people lived according to the harsh military laws. It was strength that was appreciated in Sparta, and according to an ancient legend, they threw weak newborns into the abyss. But with age, everyone loses their strength

Ammianus Marcellinus, who lived in the IV century, wrote about the Sarmatians: "They consider the one who gives up the spirit in battle to be happy." Who were these indefatigable horsemen?

Even if we forget about the problem with the roads, then in the vastness of the Fatherland there will always be places where there are “certain problems” with the car's cross-country ability. In order to do at least something in such places, you have to use special transport - off-road trucks and even all-terrain vehicles. Very special attention was paid to the development of both those and others in the USSR