The book is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Khasan, fought in 1938 between the Red Army and the Japanese Imperial Army. The Russian commander in the battle, Vasilly Blucher was later blamed for the loss and executed.

The book examines the military reforms conducted under Tsar Paul I in which he tried to reshape the Russian Army closer to the model of the Prussian Army.

This book, for the first time in the national historiography, offers a complex analysis of the stages of the birth and formation of military blocs in Europe. A process driven by the superpowers and resulting in the creation of military-political organizations supporting a bi-polar world and leading to the total confrontation of the Cold War.

All that is told in this amazing, fascinating history - the absolute truth from the beginning to the end, moreover, confirmed by a number of documents and evidence. Life itself, scorched by war, brought so tightly knotted, heart-breaking story. Here, in one story, intertwined and invisible fatal bout of special services fighting against the backdrop of the grand battles of the Great Patriotic...

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia. A victory in 1853 of the Russian Navy over the Ottoman fleet in Sinope, in the Black Sea .

Vasilii Chapaev was one of the most active participants in Russia's Civil War; in our time, he is known as the hero of many jokes. The real story of his life is interwoven with fabrications from the well-known movie about his life. Before the fall of the USSR, the name Chapaev was surrounded by an aura of heroism and whole-hearted devotion to the Revolution. This book is based on archival...

In 1961, the Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-19 suffered from a near melt-down of its reactor. This book examines the event, using archival materials that have now been made public. The events on the sub were the basis for the Harrison Ford movie, K-19 Widowmaker.

As the Americans say, freedom is not for free. So sooner or later the enemy, who for centuries pretended to be a ‘brother’ and a ‘liberator’, had to shed the blood of Ukrainians. And we will pay the ‘bill’. Therefore, this war became one of the phases of the formation of Ukraine, because you have to fight both with the occupier and with prejudices. She showed how much we still have to do and...

Documents of the Soviet state security agencies, declassified in Ukraine, have become a real Klondike for researchers and journalists. Month after month, year after year, stories found by Eduard Andryushchenko in archival files were turned into articles for Ukrainian and foreign publications. And now they are published under one cover. The heroes of these stories were outstanding artists and...

On February 24, 2022, the writer Andrii Kurkov did not write anything. And in the next few days too. An ethnic Russian who had spent his whole life in Kyiv faced the same danger as other Ukrainians. Because in his worldview, behavior and attitude to reality, the worldview and behavior of the Ukrainian Cossacks of the 16th century prevails, when Ukraine was not yet part of the Russian Empire,...