A series of articles on the history of the Livonian War of 1558–1561, published on Warspot.ru in 2018–2020

In January 1558, Russian regiments, by order of Ivan the Terrible, crossed the Russian-Livonian border. For four years, from 1558 to 1561, the Baltics were e...

For more than a century and a half, from the middle of the 16th century. and right up to the very end of the reign of Peter the Great, the archers were an in...

A series of articles on the history of the Polotsk War of 1562–1570, published on Warspot.ru in 2018–2021

In this book, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor V.V. Pensky, based on a scrupulous analysis of a wide range of sources and literature, analyzes the fa...

For a long time, Russian public opinion has established a view of the military affairs of the Russian state of the early modern era (second half of the 15th ...