The destinies of cities, like people, develop differently. Their history knows ups and downs, the cruelty of destruction and the joy of rebirth, the bitterne...

Biography of Pavel Ivanovich Kharitonenko - Ukrainian industrialist and entrepreneur, sugar refiner, patron of the arts.

The history of monarchies on all continents is replete with conspiracies, coups and murders. Therefore, most crowned rulers were unable to hold the scepter i...

Napoleon, as a rule, is placed on a par with such military geniuses as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. But, on the other hand, he is often called the ...

Today there is more and more evidence that the history of mankind is much longer than is commonly believed: according to some researchers, we are not the fir...

Since its inception, cinema has truly become the most popular of the arts, and the main people in cinema - actors - are idols of many generations. This was h...

Michael Jackson was the brightest and most charismatic star of our time, a brilliant musician and dancer, and at the same time a mysterious and sometimes ver...

Our history, oddly enough, is replete with “blank spots”, and it is not easy to understand them. This book tells about those significant events, outstanding ...

The heroines of this book are completely different - both in profession, and in character, and in lifestyle. Hitler’s “personal cameraman” Leni Riefenstahl, ...

There is not a single area of human activity in which Jews have not shown their talents. The Jewish people gave the world many brilliant personalities: relig...

Alexander the Great, Attila, Tamerlane, Cortes... are great conquerors who redrew the map of the world and determined the course of history for centuries. Th...

Nostradamus, Messing, Vanga - these names are known to millions of people, because their owners had a gift that always aroused the admiration and fear of oth...