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...

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...

Essays about famous mistresses presented in this book once again convince us of the correctness of these words. This sign was Love, which ruled over them and...

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

The image of a brilliant creative personality always has enormous attractive power for both contemporaries and descendants. It is to such personalities that ...

The outstanding painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky entered the history of world art as a romantic marine painter, a genius of classical landscape, whose...

Military experts admit that in the history of military art, neither before nor after the grandiose and bloody Napoleonic era, there was such a brilliant gala...

The history of the French colonial empire goes back almost six centuries. Its origins began under King Francis I (1494–1547), and its collapse ended during t...