Becoming king of a small state at the age of twenty, Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) owned a great empire by the age of thirty. Convinced of his divine miss...

In the Middle Ages, Europeans knew almost nothing about the countries of the East. The knowledge of the Italians - the most knowledgeable people at that time...

The United States of America, having victoriously completed World War II, was entering a new era of prosperity. Many young Hollywood actors and actresses asp...

The eighteenth century ended the era when rulers acted as patrons of the fine arts. In the middle of the century, a musical genius was born in Austria - Wolf...

In 1870, Italy finally united into a single state, but for a long time, individual regions of the country felt their self-sufficiency. There was no basis for...

The Great French Revolution of the late 18th century, which proclaimed the slogan “Liberty, equality, fraternity,” turned the social life of all of Europe up...

In the 8th-6th centuries BC, the formation of Greek civilization took place, which subsequently had a powerful influence on the formation of modern European ...

The name of Socrates (469-399 BC) is associated with the first fundamental division of the history of ancient philosophy into pre- and post-Socratic philosop...

Vladimir Odoevsky called Pushkin the sun of our poetry in his obituary. The poet was given an insultingly little life - she, this life, indeed, quickly rose ...

In the first decade after World War II, the eternal conflict between fathers and sons intensified. The younger generation did not want to put up with outdate...

The history of the car began at the end of the 19th century thanks to engineers such as Benz and Daimler. Cars began to seriously replace horse-drawn carriag...

The historical role of Peter the Great (1672-1725) is enormous. He was proclaimed a national genius, educator, savior of Russia, revolutionary, “Napoleon and...