Escorial’s ghosts
In the late fifties 16th century Charles V and the French king Henry II, the English queen Maria Tudor, Loyola and Calvin, the father Pavel […]
World history
Francis I’s letter
Force of an impact of Ottomans was defined not only the fact that it got indirect support from Protestant principalities, but in a bigger degree […]
Queen Margo
Dynastic questions during this era could make absolutely various political sense. The facing social groups quite often gave support to the competing applicants for a […]
Ekaterina Medici’s justification
Ekaterina reached the power not at once. During lifetime of the husband Henry II she was forced to bear humiliations, observing as by him his […]
Aggravation of secret war
Gradually strengthening of liberating fight in the Netherlands against Spain put the English government before need of adoption of important political decisions. Giving the chance […]
Web of plots in Europe
The second stage of the century conflict put in the forefront the methods of secret war which were not playing so significant role in the […]
History of Australia. Chapter I. Discovery of Australia
Paradoxically, but the fact that the Australian continent, on the area almost equal to the United States of America (without Alaska), was opened by Europeans […]
Cardinal Richelieu and Anna Austrian
At the beginning of the 17th century nobody dared to predict yet decline of Spain and the more so the government of a regent of […]
Chapter II. The British colonization of Australia at the end of XVIII – the first half of the 19th century.
Creation of the first colony in Australia — New South Wales Ideologists of colonialism usually seek to prove that colonization of overseas territories was objectively […]
The protocol of interrogation of I.P. Lukyanov of February 7, 1935
PROTOCOL OF INTERROGATION OF I.P. LUKYANOV (KREMLIN BUSINESS) February 7, 1935 Lukyanov I.P., 36, the member of All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) since 1920, the serviceman, […]