Biography

There are also hypotheses that Rasputin's assassination was inspired by British intelligence, which feared a separatist truce between Russia and Germany, which Rasputin urged on the Tsar.

The British monarch is a talented watercolorist. The Telegraph described him as one of the highest earning artists in the British Isles.

William Shakespeare died in Stratford, at New Place on Chapel Street, on April 23, 1616.

In 343 BC, Aristotle became tutoring Alexander the Great.

Between 1820 and 1823, Kosciuszko's mound was raised in Krakow.

He was born into a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in Tyumen Oblast.

At 18, Shakespeare married 26-years old Anne Hathaway. Because of the age difference and Anne’s pregnancy, it was suspected that the wedding was a necessity.

Shakespeare’s lineage died out 25 years after his death.

In 1813, Napoleon suffered defeat in the "battle of nations" at Leipzig - the largest battle in the history of the Napoleonic Wars.

A meringue-based dessert, pavlova, was named after Anna.