The second quarter of the 18th century is one of the forgotten pages of Russian military history for contemporary people. For him, the names of P. A. Rumyant...

The Revolution and Civil War, marked by the breakdown of old social relations and structures of state and military administration, posed the task of creating...

The revolutionary events of 1917 led to the destruction of the foundations of Russian statehood, part of which was left by the Russian imperial army. However...

Commanders of the White Movement. For a long time their names fell into oblivion. Even now, when bookstore shelves are filled with various brochures and tome...

The commanders of the First World War are a whole galaxy of names that are only now coming out of oblivion. Right now, the reader can see a panorama of the g...

Throughout the 19th century, the Russian imperial army acted as the defender of the national and state interests of the empire. In the Caucasus and the Balka...

“Generals of the twelfth year”... This familiar phrase for us hides a whole galaxy of commanders. Their names are forever associated with the most heroic pag...

At the beginning of the 19th century, Europe was engulfed in the flames of wars of anti-French coalitions. For 15 years, European powers tried to resist the ...

“The thunder of victory, ring out…” - this poem was written by G. R. Derzhavin in the last quarter of the 18th century - during the era of the most glorious ...

The period of the 18th–19th centuries was the heyday of Russian military art. The young empire established itself in Europe as the owner of powerful armies a...

On May 9, 1945, the most terrible war in the history of Russia and all mankind ended. Contrary to all forecasts promising defeat, the USSR survived, and the ...

The sixth book in the series “Great Commanders of Russia”, prepared by the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) and Komsomolskaya Pravda in collaborati...