Not long ago, in the article dedicated to the extravagant Russian masquerade ball that inspired the costumes for the movie The Phantom Menace , we reported that Maria Miloslavskaya, the first wife of Tsar Alexios I (the father of Peter I the Great ) and mother of Tsar Fyodor III, had been chosen as
The Austro-Prussian War of 1866, also known as the Seven Weeks War, was decided on the Bohemian front by the overwhelming victory of the Prussians at the Battle of Sandova. However, large-scale operations were also conducted in Italy, between Prussias Italian and Austrian allies. The conflict on thi
December 31, 192 one of the worst emperors that Rome has given met death. After seeing the famous film by Ridley Scott, Gladiator, we can well think that the good Commodus would have liked to meet his death that way, that is, fought in the arena of the Roman Colosseum. But no, the young emperor, onl
Russian troops held the islands of Khiouma and Sarema, which command the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, until October 19.The garrison of the Soviet base on the Finnish peninsula of Hanko (west of Helsinki), which was surrounded , resisted the enemy for five months and was also successfully evacuat