timur, one of the greatest conquerors of antiquity, also known as tamerlane , took by storm, damascus potersky timurn, he was nicknamed the iron temple. he was limping from the arrow wound. by that time tamerlane owned all of central asia in india, he reached the ganges, captured the lands of modern iran and iraq, defeated the golden horde and almost reached moscow, but turned back, according to the legend of the muscovites, saved the icon of the blessed virgin mary or maybe the prince of moscow paid off now the period of the egyptian mamluks who owned the middle east the citadel to the mask defended for 43 days and timur became furious. he was known for his cruelty , he ordered 30,000 people to be rounded up in a large mosque and all women after the house timur inflicted the defeat of the ottoman empire and then undertook to seize china. but the death of the great commander prevented the implementation of this plan. on march 24 , 1801, the emperor was killed. paul the first the unloved son of catherine ii, he reigned for less than 5 years and remains one of the most controversial figures. in our hi