This lecture takes the conversation about the Spanish Civil War beyond school frameworks and familiar slogans. Here, history is revealed through the fates of individuals, military evolution, cultural responses, and political upheavals that changed Europe and left a deep mark on literature, art, and the memory of an entire century. Many know about the Spanish Civil War through separate images - slogans, poster heroics, figures of international brigaders, and a few loud names from literature and painting. But beneath this recognizable layer lies a much more complex, tense, and important story. This lecture helps to see it in full scale: how a conflict that shook the whole world became a battleground of ideologies, a premonition of future catastrophe, and one of the key episodes of 20th-century Europe. A particular interest here is in the very angle of the conversation. The topic will be revealed through the background, battles, and people, meaning that listeners will be able to see not only the course of events but also the human dimension of the war. The discussion will address why this conflict resonated so strongly in the Russian consciousness, how echoes of the recent Civil War in Russia intertwined with the troubling outlines of the future Second World War. Such an approach makes the material particularly rich: history is perceived not as a distant chronicle but as a dramatic knot where politics, culture, military thought, and the fates of millions converge. Entertainment in Yekaterinburg is gathered on our website.