Rudolph Peterskhagen was a colonel in the Knights Cavalier and was gravely wounded near Stalingrad. After his recovery he was named commander of the city of Greifsvald [Neuenkirchen, Germany]. In the spring of 1945, not wanting more senseless death, Peterskhagen gave the city to the Red Army. This was the only instance in which the Red Army took a city without combat. In the early 1950's,...

The highest military decoration in the Russian Empire, and in the Russian Federation after 1994. The order was created by Catherine the Great in 1796.

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

The short guidebook to the State Military-Historical Archives includes information on all materials (as of 1 Jan 2001) held by the archives. There is also information on the organization of the materials and how to search for documents. The guidebooks is essential for those wishing to work in the archives. Includes information on armies, corps and smaller units and formations (including...

Diese Gesamtgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs ist konkurrenzlos. Noch nie wurde die Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts so vielschichtig erzählt: europäisch vergleichend, global in der Perspektive, souverän in der Darstellung.

In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, part of Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the ‘Wagner Group’ faded back into shadow, only to reemerge in the Middle East, where they'd go toe-to-toe with the U.S., and in Africa, where they'd earn praise for ‘tough measures’ against insurgencies yet spark outrage for looting,...

Full title: Chetvertaia mirovaia voina. Informatsionno-analiticheskii spravochnik po negosudarstvennym voenizirovannym sistemam.

The author writes that the end of the Cold War lead to hope of a more stable world. But the NATO bloc ignored Moscow's protest's, expanded eastward towards Russia's borders. Only with the rise of Putin did hope appear about Russia's resurgence.

Full title: Voenno-promyshlennyi kompleks Kuibyshevskoi oblasti v gody velikoi otechestvennoi voiny (1941-1945 gg.) Sbornik dokumentov

The book ‘Our Business is Death’ is the most complete history of the Wagner PMC and its owner Yevgeny Prigozhin. The authors are journalists Ilya Barabanov and Denis Korotkov. Both began researching Wagner in the mid-2010s, when almost no one knew about this group. They told how the private military company operated in Ukraine, Syria and African countries. They proved that the PMC belongs to...