History
14.09.25
Vintage Beauties of 1940s New York
14-09-2025
9 of the most brutal psychological experiments in history
What happens if you tell a boy half his life that he is a girl? And if you torture a person with electric shock or force the ...
14-09-2025
Who cries on the famous painting by Edvard Munch
Great creative heritage of the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch painting "the Scream" is the most famous. She not only often ...
13-09-2025
Robots, knights and monsters: the mystical world of Jakub ...
Polish artist Jakub Rozalski was born in Krakow but lives in Hamburg. Paintings of Jakub is a real opportunity to make a journey ...
13-09-2025
A look into the past: 22 old photographs that bring history ...
Diving into the past reveals amazing stories and moments captured on film. In this collection you will find archival photographs ...
13-09-2025
A happy childhood without the Internet: how it was in the 90s
Now smartphones, tablets and consoles have penetrated so tightly into the lives of children that it is already difficult to ...
13-09-2025
"Commander-in-Chief Stalin" and other typos that have gone ...
From pre-revolutionary times to the present day, an annoying typo in the press was sometimes paid with a career, or even with life. ...
13-09-2025
Incredibly rare historical footage that we will never forget
Behind each photograph there is someone's story or even a whole life of a person with all the ups and downs, sorrows and joys. ...
12-09-2025
The touching story of Mikhail Lomonosov's German love
Many great people had a peculiar idea of relationships and were not particularly loyal. The Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov ...
12-09-2025
The mystery of the death of King Richard the Lionheart, who ...
The English king Richard I Plantagenet, nicknamed Lionheart for his determination and bravery, ruled the kingdom for only ten years ...
12-09-2025
World war Bronze age: who won the first battle in European ...
Historians believed that during the Bronze age, Northern Europe was a backward region. However, findings on the German river ...
12-09-2025
29 most expensive and crazy PR moves in history
Advertising surrounds us from all sides. And if anyone can put up ads on the entrances or order a video on television, then only ...
12-09-2025
The history of the "Black rose": widowed at the age of 16, ...
Love story is a classic of Russian literature, Alexander Griboyedov and the Georgian Princess Nina Chavchavadze so tragic, that it ...
12-09-2025
One Ilyich and three Stalinodars: four attempts to rename Moscow
Renaming cities, streets, parks, sidewalks was one of the main entertainments of the Soviet nomenclature. Thousands of toponyms ...
12-09-2025
A curious Barbarian had her nose torn off at the bazaar, or ...
The statue of Venus de Milo without hands is a symbol of the era of ancient Greece. The sculpture of a pharaoh without a nose is ...
11-09-2025
Fun, beautiful and still a few facts that we didn't know ...
Many remember Leonid Brezhnev, the old and infirm a man about whom popular rumor piled a lot of anecdotes. For example, we remember ...
11-09-2025
Russia of the XIX century through the eyes of a Scottish ...
Edinburgh photographer named William Carrick was the first ethnographer who managed to capture the everyday life of the Russian ...
11-09-2025
Little-known facts about ancient Egyptian mummies that you ...
The culture of Ancient Egypt never ceases to inspire writers and screenwriters to new stories. Tom Cruise has already found himself ...
11-09-2025
What did the beauties of tsarist Russia look like
The concepts of female beauty change every few decades — different types of figures, aristocratic faces and other signs of a ...
11-09-2025
Will a woman be able to bear and give birth to a Neanderthal
Neanderthals who disappeared from the face of the Earth about 30 thousand. years ago, they are considered the closest relatives of ...
11-09-2025
How a Jewish boy Ilya Halperin became the son of an SS ...
In October 1941, five-year-old Ilya Galperin witnessed the execution of the people closest to him-his mother, sister and brother. ...
10-09-2025
Length does matter: unique images of brides 30 years
In the history of the world 30 years remember the economic difficulties caused by the great depression, but the fashion was still ...
10-09-2025
The twin towers in the 70s: how did the world trade center in ...
Before the tragedy of September 11, 2001 the twin towers of the world trade center was scitalis the main symbol of new York. It ...
10-09-2025
Who are farriers and why did their profession disappear?
The word "farrier" has probably been heard by everyone. Today it has a negative connotation and is used as an offensive ...
10-09-2025
Criminals in a new color: photographer colorizes photos of ...
Matt Loughrey is a photographer and graphic artist based in Ireland who has been colourising historical photographs for many years. ...
10-09-2025
Pictures of the Briton Phil Penman, who was at the scene of ...
Fear and confusion gripped millions of New Yorkers on September 11, 2001, the day when these terrible pictures were taken. But the ...
10-09-2025
From personal archives – touching family photos of actors ...
This issue is a post of warm lamp nostalgia, a selection of photos from the family archives of many beloved Soviet actors and other ...