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In the early morning May 20, 1905 residents of the city of Danang were awakened by thunder saluting the French national flag naval guns, and woke up shocked by the unprecedented spectacle: the port to fill a lot of huge black warships lined up in rows across the bay. 2nd Pacific squadron of Vice...

Arkady Petrovich Gaidar. This name was sacred for Soviet children - by a surprisingly bright and good books, many of which are reprinted and now. But very few people knew about the mysteries surrounding this man. Arkady Golikov (Gaidar is a literary pseudonym) was born in 1904. Strange...

At night, June 4, 1897 Russian Black Sea Fleet ships entered the Bosphorus. At dawn , the rays of the rising sun lit lined up in the Strait of battleships "Tri svyatitelya", "Georgiy Pobedonosets", "Yekaterina II", "Sinop", "Chesma" and "Dvenadtsat' apostolov", cruiser "Pamyat Merkuriya" and...

October 19, 1812 Napoleon's army left Moscow, beginning a retreat for New Kaluga road. Napoleon intended to break through to the southern, rich food of Russia, because he could not move in the way in which it is a few months ago, moved to the east. Ruined, looted by Napoleon's soldiers regions...

This article is a supplement to: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=277441 It is well known that tsarist Russia was a police state where tyranny reigned, and the lower strata of the population - workers and peasants - were living in extreme poverty, vegetating in...

In 1912, the Russian Navy Department has received a top secret letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It said that in 1919 the deadline for the Anglo-Japanese military alliance and significant phrase: "We must be ready by then." We can assume that had it not been World War, the Russian...

In one of the rooms of the "Red Star", released sometime in 2008-2010, I came across an interesting article about the beginning of World War II. There's mentioned in passing that in May-June 1941 in Denmark were billeting officers of the Red Army. What the hell were they doing there? The only...

Part 1. Let's start with the fact that the Soviet Navy during the Great Patriotic War was ineffective, not because of the quality of domestic ships, and above all because of the lack of a clear understanding of what is actually needed this fleet. Pre-war naval admirals imagined battle with...

Continuing the theme, started: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=277898 Human history is littered with great hoaxes. Such, for instance, is a mythical story of Napoleon Bonaparte: in the nineteenth century, it was proved that the image of the "great general" is a...

Columbus where he had traveled or history with geography. The history of the discovery of America is replete with dark spots. The biggest mystery is the personality of Christopher Columbus, a man of unknown origin and religious affiliation. What were the caravels of Columbus? Why Columbus...

The February Revolution 1917 - unsuccessful military coup? It has long been known that in the Russian Empire there was a conspiracy of the upper aiming at overthrowing of the regime. Why not admit that the conspirators attempted to realize his dream to throw off the throne of Nicholas II and...

Battleships and battle cruisers of the Russian Imperial Navy after WWI. Evening, May 31, 1918 were solemnly lowered the flags on the flotilla of the Arctic Ocean. FSLO was disbanded, and its ships derived in reserve or excluded from the Navy. This event was a milestone marking the new phase...

Dear colleagues! I do not know English well, but I want to try to publish on your site one of his works. I will take the criticism is greatly appreciated. Hunting for "George Washington". Sometime in the 80s, I came across a book, the author of which I firmly forgotten. If...