The legacy of the vast empire of ancient Rome is present everywhere around us in the modern world today. The Romans left us poetry, ideas, laws, and vocab...

The 1,000-year period beginning in the fifth century is commonly referred to as the Dark Ages in the Western World. In Islamic societies, however, the era...

Peter Arkadyevich Stolypin is one of the most striking and tragic figures in Russian political history. We offer the reader a book consisting of memoirs of b...

The Celts, like no other people, are surrounded by an aura of mystery; their culture, which influenced the tradition of all of Europe, beckons and fascinates...

The textbook is devoted to the history of Asian and African countries in 1900–1945. A special chapter examines the main trends in the development of the peop...

Sergei Yulievich Witte played one of the decisive roles in the fate of Russia. It is to him that the state owes the economic recovery of the late 19th and ea...

The phenomenon of manga, which has become the largest cultural import from East to West, can no longer be ignored. Manga is no longer some kind of exotic, bu...

“Wherever we look, we always meet with this colossal figure, who casts a long shadow over our entire past...” — historian M. P. Pogodin wrote about Peter I 1...

7 best stories and 29 illustrations from the art community "USSR-2061". You can download and read, you can order a paper copy.

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The authors of the textbook, in the light of the latest achievements of historical science, examine the most important events and problems in the history of ...

“Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals” (1842) is a famous collection for which the texts were written by famous French writers, and the illustr...