Perhaps no subsonic actress has been as popular as Pickford. Mary. Actress of the theater and cinema, the first business woman of Hollywood, the founder of a number of acting nominations, and so on and so forth
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The article tells about the outstanding Russian scientist, philosopher and religious figure - Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky. A brief history of his bright but tragic life is given
John VI ruled for only a year as an infant. The rest of his life consisted of exile and imprisonment
The article is devoted to the review of the zemstvo reform of 1864, in particular the organization of zemstvo administrations and zemstvo assemblies, as well as a description of their functions and significance
The case of the Petrashevites is the case of a progressive group of young people whose views were very heterogeneous. They studied and propagated the socio-utopian Western thought of the 19th century, and only a few of them had ideas of a revolutionary nature. Representatives of the Petrashevist society were convicted in 1849. How this happened, we will tell in our article
Helena Blavatsky is one of the most famous theosophists in the world. Her numerous travels formed the basis of books that have become desktop books for philosophers and theologians of various teachings and schools
Cyrus II (Karash or Kurush II) is a gifted commander and king of Persia, who during his lifetime received the nickname "Great" when he founded the powerful Persian Empire, uniting disparate states from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. Why was the Persian king Cyrus called the Great?
Tattoos since ancient times were considered a special work of art. Unlike drawings on paper or wood, they forever remained on the human body, became part of it. Among the tribes famous for their skillful mastery of tattoos, the Aztecs stood out in particular. The symbols and ornaments of the Aztecs adorned the bodies of priests, spiritual, political leaders and everyone who participated in their special rituals
Yekaterinburg is one of the largest cities in our country. It is relatively young and is one of the settlements that were founded during the period of the emergence of Russian industry and the development of the Urals
The identity, and most importantly, the mysterious suicide of the first Secretary of Defense of the United States - James Forrestal - even decades after his death raises many questions. This article will help to find out some details of his life and version of death
Each of us has heard the expression "Ariadne's thread" at least once in our lives. Often we call something that helped us understand a difficult situation, find a way out of it. The emergence of this phraseological unit is associated with ancient Greek mythology
Cretan king Minos - myth or reality? Such a ruler really existed in antiquity. Not only archaeologists talk about this, but also the manuscripts and legends that have survived to this day. The king's reign is legendary. It was an incredible era of the heroes of Ancient Greece. The gods are added by the folk epic. Minos is spoken of with great respect not only by ethnographers and archaeologists, but also by the Greeks themselves
Athens has experienced many periods in its history. The city was an ancient policy, the provincial center of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Today it is the capital of independent Greece
Yuri Gagarin is a man who forever left his mark on the history of world science. After all, it was he who had the honor to see our blue planet from space for the first time. However, until now, the first ever flight into space is shrouded in many secrets and mysteries
The era is characterized by the improvement of labor and hunting tools, but scientists still cannot understand how ancient people came to the idea of smelting copper ore in a metallurgical way
This article describes the functions, duties and rights of the commander-in-chief and the history of the position
Stolypin's agrarian reform was designed to overcome Russia's growing lag behind Western states. Its implementation and results are covered in the article
Temporal rings - adornments of Slavic women, fixed, as a rule, at the temples. They were made of gold, silver, bronze. Slavs wore temporal rings one by one or several pairs at once
The article describes the concept of "revolutionary situation", gives a brief overview of the main features of this socio-political phenomenon and provides examples of its emergence from Russian history
There is a historical hypothesis that Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich finally plunged Russia into the darkness of serfdom by issuing a document called “Decree on Lesson Years”
From this informational article you will learn what the Cathedral Code was. It also tells what relations were regulated by his articles. You will find out the interests of which class of Russia it defended
Quiet, deeply believing in God's providence, the king saw that the Lord ruled his country and preserved his kingdom. Such was the last Rurikovich, Fedor Ivanovich - the king, whose biography and deeds left a good mark in the history of the country
In 1933, many socially significant events took place not only in our country, but throughout the world. Traditionally, the focus was on the Soviet Union, the United States of America and Germany. Read more about the most significant moments of the year in this article
The article tells about the implementation of the complete collectivization of the country's agriculture, begun in 1928 at the initiative of Stalin. A brief outline of its history is given, as well as a number of negative processes that accompanied it
Bourgeois revolution is a social phenomenon, the purpose of which is the forcible removal of the feudal class from power, the transition to the capitalist system. Once it was a cutting-edge, significant event. Having taken place in England, the Netherlands and France in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bourgeois revolution changed the course of world history
The publication of the Manifesto on the three-day corvee is an important event in the history of Russia. The legislative act marked the beginning of the restriction of serfdom in the empire. What is the content of the manifest? How did contemporaries react to this legislative act?
The article tells about the work of the 2nd Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, the first meeting of which took place on October 25 (November 7), 1917. A brief outline of the issues considered at it and the adopted documents is given
Discourses about the driving forces of the historical process run into the question of where humanity is heading, what it wants and what it has already achieved
In all ages, corporal punishment has accompanied human society. In today's civilized society, corporal punishment has been replaced by pedagogy and the Criminal Code. But beating is so ingrained in our brain that it is unlikely to ever cease to exist
It's no secret that the peasants in Russia have always been oppressed. Before the abolition of serfdom (and indeed, even after it), life was hard for them. Nevertheless, starting from Paul the First, the rulers took measures to improve the life of the population and solve the peasant issue
Empires of the world collapsed, disintegrated, and separate independent states were formed in their place. A similar fate did not bypass the Russian Empire, which lasted 196 years, starting in 1721 and ending in 1917
What we know from the school curriculum about representatives of nomadic peoples does not quite correspond to reality. A nomad is not only a representative of a semi-savage tribe who sought to rob and kill. For example, the Polovtsians - a nomadic tribe that got its name from the yellow hair of its representatives - were engaged in cattle breeding, as well as trade
The glorious city of Kyiv bears many names. This is the mother of Russian cities, Zlatoglav, the city of seven hills and bald mountains. Its history is full of interesting and mysterious events
"Describe, without further ado, everything that you will witness in life." These words of A..S. Pushkin, like no other, illuminate the meaning of Russian chronicle writing. We are especially interested in the Ipatiev Chronicle, the only one that recorded the events of the history of Galicia-Volyn Rus
The beginning of the formation of statehood, researchers refer to the VIII-IX centuries. During this period, the population moves from the appropriating economy to the producing one. This has led to we alth inequality
Not much is known about the oldest cities on the planet. There are objective reasons for this. For example, the climate changed, and entire nations were forced to leave the promised places, which over time were covered with completely applied layers of earth or they were swallowed up by the jungle. Many ancient cities of the world went under water, as a result of earthquakes disappeared under the ashes, like Pompeii. And of course, wars that wipe entire civilizations off the face of the earth
The article is devoted to a brief description of the cultural layer. The work indicates its composition, stratification and formation
Egyptian hieroglyphs are one of the writing systems used for almost 3.5 thousand years. In Egypt, it began to be used at the turn of the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. This system combined elements of phonetic, syllabic and ideographic style
This article will help you understand the causes and reasons, as well as trace the chronology. It is accompanied by a table compiled on the topic of "Crusades" containing the most important dates, names and events
Louis VII (years of life 1120-1180) ruled in France for forty-three years. In traditional history, he was considered a weak monarch, but this can be argued. Yes, he was not the one who defeated the Germans and was fond of carnal pleasures, but not everything is so simple. He deserves to be called a worthy representative of the Capetians