Russia
Battle at Züllichau II
Meanwhile, Frederick still faced Field Marshal Leopold Reichsgraf von Daun in Silesia. So the province was exposed only to the eastern side, and quickly the king decided he would again have to go beyond the Oder to face the Russian threat. They had to be kept from rendezvousing with the Austrians, at all costs. This was clearly his most urgent…
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White Defeat in the Russian Civil War
The Red versus White struggle was decided on the battlefield, but the outcome of civil wars also depends on the contenders’ ability, through politics and propaganda, to convince people to fight for them (or at least not to raise arms against them). In this field, governance, the Whites were a…
The Sad Eagle:Â Oryol
Oryol: Eagle in Russian. Assigned to Second Pacific Squadron in 1904. Surrendered at Tsushima. Refitted by Japan. Commissioned in Japanese Navy as Iwami in 1907. Rated as a coastal defense ship in 1912. Served in Pacific during World War I and Russian Revolution, participating in siege of Tsingtao and Japanese…
GAZ-2975 “Tiger” or Russian Tigr Part II
The GAZ-2975 Tigr (“Tiger”) is Russia’s new standard light armored utility vehicle, akin to the US HMMWV. It is typically fitted with one or two 7.62mm Pecheneg machine guns on pintle mounts, or, an AGS-17 30mm grenade launcher. A GAZ Tigr-M in Moscow during rehearsals for the 2019 Victory Day…
Vitus Jonassen Bering I
RCHKG8 Fur Traders of the Russian-American Company. Museum: State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg. Author: Pshenichny, Igor Pavlovich. On November 5, 1724, Peter the Great waded waist-deep into the icy waters of the Gulf of Finland to help rescue some sailors whose boat had capsized. Fever and chills followed, later…
Vitus Jonassen Bering II
Post-mortem reconstruction of Vitus Jonassen Bering’s face. On July 14, 1728 – three and a half years after leaving St. Petersburg – Bering’s newly constructed ship, the St. Gabriel, stocked with enough food to sustain its crew of forty for a year, sailed from the mouth of the Kamchatka River.…
Russia Just Tested a Space Weapon
PL-19 Nudol anti-satellite missile system. TEL-mounted Nudol Artist’s depiction from company calendar. Probable “Nudol” from Plesetsk launched on December 15. USS Lake Erie launching the SM-3 interceptor that destroyed USA-193 in orbit, 2008. Russia has carried out another test of its new PL19 Nudol (named after a Russian river) anti-satellite…