Breaking

Shortly before the outbreak of the great Patriotic war as a graduate of the Odessa school Gregory Helfenstein was drafted into the army. He got the troops VNOS (air surveillance, warning and communication). And this circumstance determined the whole subsequent life of Gregory Ilyich.

During the 1654-55 plague epidemic years, Russia has suffered the most in Moscow. According to reports of contemporaries, then the capital is practically empty, and the site of the former residents of Moscow began to take inogorodniy.

One of the most murderous women in the Russian and world history is the landowner Daria Saltykova, which for the brutal murder of serfs nicknamed Saltychikha. According to one, she personally sent to the light a few dozen people, others more than 100. What motivated the brutal massacre of the innocent?

On 27 June 1709 Russian army defeated the Swedish at Poltava. This victory is considered decisive in the great Northern war (1700-1721). Traditionally, the main merit of it attributed to Tsar Peter I. But we all know that the victory is produced soldiers and generals. In addition, Peter the Great is possessed neither military talents nor the personal courage. The true "culprits" of the Poltava battle are still in the shadows.

Rumors that the basement of the Ipatiev house, were executed counterparts of the Royal family and the Romanovs went immediately after killing them. They do not cease and today. In the 1920-1930-ies in the USSR and Western Europe, there were impostors who pretended to be the children of Nicholas II. One of them was Nikita of Garchuk, who called himself Tsar Michael, the illegitimate son of the last Russian Emperor.