The British and French delegation spent over ten days in Moscow in August 1939. It is uncertain what its purpose was actually - to avert war, or maybe to give it a shape that was ... convenient for London? The military conference ended in a fiasco because Poland and Romania did not agree to the
If you asked someone on the street what the Varsovians were doing in August 1944, the answer would probably be:they took part in the uprising. And what were the inhabitants of Kraków doing at the same time? Well, the inhabitants of the city near Wawel volunteered to ... build fortifications for the
In the 16th-17th centuries there were many plans for the Polish-Russian union. This meant that the Russian tsar could sit on the Polish throne, or the Russian - the Polish king. The idea of merging the two countries first appeared during the interregnum, after the death of Sigismund Augustus in
People have cataloged and described nature for centuries. However, they did not always do it based on facts - very often, instead of reliable information, readers found nonsense sucked out of their fingers ... Bestiaries from ancient times, the Middle Ages and even later historical periods aboun