Discusses about the History Wars in Russia. Encounters between white settlers and the long-established indigenous inhabitants; Reference to the literary work "The Russian Primary Chronicle"; Role played by Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin.Armstrong...
Uncertainties engendered by the nature of Russian religion, rule, society, and manners perpetuated former ambivalent attitudes toward Byzantium. Unmapped spaces, where Europe petered out in marshes,… Read More Gustavus Adolphus In Gustavus Adolphus: Resolution of foreign wars The war in Russia was ...
Battle of Friedland Russo-Turkish wars Russian Revolution of 1905 (Show more) Key People: Peter I Isaac Babel Catherine the Great David Ben-Gurion Anna Akhmatova Related Topics: Slavophile Emancipation Manifesto Decembrist Westernizer Related Places: ...
The development of Russian military-historical thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries was reflected in the chronicles, with narrations about feudal wars in Rus’, the struggle of the Russian people against foreign invasions, the building up of armed forces, and the wars during the formation...
History of War Russian Roulette – Anna Reid on Britain’s Intervention in Civil War As the ‘war to end all wars’ reached its bloody crescendo, a foolhardy intervention was launched into Russia’s civil war, which ended in defeat and a sinister complicity. 30th November 2024 History of...
Story of the great Russian Icon painter 1400 Henry V Laurence Olivier Battle of Agincourt, Conquest of France 1410 Krzyzacy r Battle of Grunwald, Teutonic Knights 1420 Richard III Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom Story of the usurper of the English Throne 1450 The Messenger: ...
Munich Agreement, Night of the Long Knives, Napoleonic Wars, Norman Conquest, Pearl Harbor, Peasants' Revolt, Peterloo Massacre, Potato Famine, Reformation, Reign of Terror, Renaissance, Restoration, Risorgimento, Russian Revolution, Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, South Sea Bubble, Spanish Armada,...
Several parts of the former Russian Empire—Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland—were established as sovereign states, with their own civil wars and wars of independence. The rest of the former Russian Empire was consolidated into the Soviet Union shortly afterwards. British historian ...
This is a less well-known story to English readers than the battlefields of France and Belgium, and the focus on the war from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires makes for very interesting reading. Russia lost more than 2.3 million soldiers in the war; the Austro...
History resists the deletions of tyrants; but right now, in much of the world, it has a fight on its hands. The Russian Supreme Court’s closure of Memorial International, which for decades has been committed to documenting Soviet atrocities, was a backhanded compliment to the threat posed by...