Please note that this is not meant to be a biography of any one person but a brief overview of the dynasty to show the impact that the Mongols had for many centuries. More in depth posts will follow going into more detail of specific people and events. It all started in unassuming grasslands on […]
Category: Russia
Princess Olga of Kiev
When you think of a saint, most people think of a gentle, Godly person with great patience and faith. Princess Olga of Kiev proves that a saint can be a woman of God, but not take any crap either. No one is exactly sure of when Olga was born. Sources put it any where between 879 […]
THE FIRST USE OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND THE SIEGE OF KAFFA
Written on August 9, 2016 by ER at 7:02 PM | 0
Byzantium, GJ, Italy, Northern Europe, Rest of the World, Russia, Southern Europe
Byzantium, GJ, Italy, Northern Europe, Rest of the World, Russia, Southern Europe
It is recorded that by 1331 The Black Death was ravaging its way through central Asia. It was for a long time a mystery as to how exactly this plague managed to make its way to the shores of Europe but by reading ancient texts historians and biologists think they have traced its advancement to […]
The Night Witches
It was 1941 and the Third Reich seemed unstoppable in its roll across Europe. Hitler and Stalin had a non-aggression pact, but Hitler threw that in the trash and turned his eyes east and invaded the Soviet Union. By November, the German Army was 19 miles from Moscow and the city of Leningrad was under […]
The White Death and the Winter War
Simo Hayha was born in 1905 in Rautjarvi, Finland, close to the border with Russia. In a time and place where hunting for food was still a necessity, Simo learned how to hunt and handle weapons from an early age. As a result he was an excellent shot and a very capable trapper, knowing his […]