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(The saint who glorified the Lithuanian martyrs and established the Polotsk See of Bishop) Metropolitan Macarius was called in the world...

The writer Procopius of Caesarea is a person thanks to whom the modern reader can learn in detail about the 6th century. Still...

A prominent political figure of the pre-revolutionary era and one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Party, Georgy...

The Livonian War of 1558-1583 became one of the most important campaigns of the times, and indeed the entire 16th century, perhaps. The Livonian War: briefly about...

Even decades after the death of Joseph Stalin, his last days and hours are surrounded by an aura of mystery. Could the doctors...

Representatives of the younger generation of the modern era, including schoolchildren and students, are unlikely to remember that in the early years...

An ancient impregnable city from which the Christian history of Europe began. The sea gate from Asia to Europe and the crossroads...

Name: Alexander I (Alexander Pavlovich Romanov) Date of birth: December 23, 1777 Age: 47 years Date of death: December 1...

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The best thing history gives us is the enthusiasm it arouses. The Livonian War lasted from 1558 to 1583. During the war, Ivan...

January 27, the day the siege of Leningrad was lifted, is special in the history of our country. Today on this date is celebrated annually...

Marshal of the USSR and military leader of the Red Army, Mikhail Tukhachevsky was an outstanding tactician of his time and went down in history thanks to...

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the colorful kaleidoscope of internal political events in Russia, a special place was occupied by the Socialist Revolutionary Party,...

Date of publication 01/28/2015 During my childhood in the 60s of the last century in the small village of Protasy, Shabalinsky district...

Muscovite Rus', starting from the 16th century, in a constant struggle with the Crimean and Nogai Tatars, tried to take possession of the coastal zones...

Easy navigation through the article: Russia in the era of transformations of Peter I Considering the personality of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great,...

In recent years, an increasing number of people have begun to fondly remember the Brezhnev era of stagnation. Availability of stability and social...

Russian Revolution 1905-1907 is one of the late bourgeois revolutions. 250 years separated it from the English revolution...

The 6th century marks the reign of Emperor Justinian (527 - 565), who decided to restore the Roman Empire to its former borders....

March 10 (February 26, old style) 1845 - exactly 165 years ago - in the "Gazette of the St. Petersburg City Police" it was...

Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko - Russian writer, screenwriter, director, was born on July 18, 1932 in Irkutsk...

Biography Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev - (November 28, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire - September 30, 1999,...

There is a month in the sky - and the shadow of the night has not yet moved, It reigns over itself, not realizing that the day has already begun to stir - that even lazily and...

Famous Russian traveler, writer, artist, clergyman, free balloon pilot. Archpriest of the Russian...

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Yemets is a children's and teenage science fiction writer. Candidate of Philology. At 22 he became the youngest...

Burns Robert (1759-1796) Scottish poet. Born in the village of Alloway, near the city of Ayr in Scotland, in a poor peasant...

Baron, navigator, traveler, admiral, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences (1827), honorary member (1855) of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. One of...

Yankovic de Mirievo Fedor Ivanovich (1741-1814) - Russian and Serbian teacher, member of the Russian Academy (1783). Came from...

For a long time he was the main ideologist of the Soviet state, a friend of Stalin, “bombed” Anna Akhmatova and Zoshchenko, survived the blockade, and...

Brief biography of Joseph Brodsky Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky is an outstanding poet, translator, prose writer and playwright of the 20th century....

Ivan groznyj. Mother of Ivan the Terrible. Mother of Ivan the Terrible, her origin. Elena Vasilievna Glinskaya (1508 - April 4 (April 13)...

Reading time: 11 minutes LifeGid continues the series “Stories with Alexey Kurilko.” The writer's focus is on the man whose name became...

In the Moscow metro at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station, 76 bronze sculptures are located in the niches of the hall. Sculptor Matvey Manizer created...

A cheerful and brave onion from sunny Italy named Cipollino in the 1950s became a symbol of the victory of an oppressed people over...

Samantha Smith is an American schoolgirl from Maine who became world famous thanks to a letter she just wrote...

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet (lived 1820 - 1892) - this name is known to any schoolchild. Let's look at the most important thing in Fet's biography:...

There is perhaps no poet in the world who has been so well known and sung for two centuries in his native country. Lines of his best poems...

Lyman Frank Baum Date of Birth: May 15, 1856 Place of Birth: Chittenango, New York, USA Date of Death: May 6, 1919 Place of Death......

Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin – head of the North Pole research drifting station, Doctor of Geographical Sciences,...

Head of St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - Candidate of Legal Sciences,...