Could a simple peasant boy of the late XIX century become one of the pioneers of aviation, a talented pilot, officer, and eventually a knight? And how! This story will be about Ivan Smirnov - Russian officer, St. George Cavalry, White Guard, and ...
Nikita Novsky
Nikita Novsky
Rasputin's myth
Rasputin is a truly legendary person. In the west, dozens of films and hundreds of caricatures were dedicated to him, but in Russia he, alas, is the character of the dirtiest and most accustomed myth of the last century. According to this myth, Grigory Rasputin, a simple ...
The lie of the left elites
After reading the interview with Honorable Prince Karl von Habsburg of Radio Liberty the other day, I noticed one detail. Namely: migration. The prince said that so far in Europe there are even too few migrants, and we can easily ...
Liberal Gulag
Recently, a note was published on Knife, which said that there should be no right to freedom of opinion. You never know, having suddenly thought of “Genderfluid versexual” you inadvertently insult a non-binary gender lesbian, but what about ...
The myth of serfdom
Quite a few in Russia think that our serfdom was a sign of the wildest lag behind all of Europe. Say, well, now they have already canceled everywhere, and in our country bloody Tsarism tortured and tortured the simple people. But was it really? Serfdom ...
China can not colonize Siberia
Rumors about the "Chinese threat", the Chinese colonization of Siberia and the Far East, are quite frequent in our society. They serve as a reason for anything — for just decadent and surrender sentiments, that for appeals to take ...
Reformed Party: The Radicals of Modern Holland
Today's Holland deservedly enjoys the reputation of one of the most liberal countries in Europe, the most subject to the trends of our time - both in terms of morality and in terms of politics. But at the same time, besides the fact that, as already mentioned ...
Anti-revolutionary Holland
The French Revolution, and the subsequent Revolutionary, and then Napoleonic, wars have battered not only France itself, but the whole of Europe. While natives of Lyons fought to death in distant Russia, the natives of London and Edinburgh died in hot ...
Why do not I believe in progress?
Progress ... how much is good about this word. With just one voice, his heart is filled with grace, and his mind with reasoning about good for the whole world. Say this word 10 once - and you will find yourself in the Garden of Eden, from where your ancestors were expelled ...
1917: The Battle for Moscow
The situation in autumn 1917 in Moscow, as, indeed, throughout Russia, was quite tense. The Socialist-Revolutionaries had a weak majority in the City Duma, while the Bolsheviks had only 23 seats from 200. At the elections held in September in the regional ...
