Biography

During one stay in his native village, an attempt on his life took place. One of the members of the ...

Rasputin did not attend school and helped his father occasionally in the wagon business, transportin ...

Perversely, the song was regarded as a kind of Confederate anthem, gaining popularity during the vote for Southern secession in 1860.

There is no unanimity among historians about the origin of Columbus -  several theories about it hav ...

Michelangelo left the Medici Palace after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. He returned to his family home and worked on a sculpture of Hercules (this work was lost in the 18th century).

The previous sales record was set in 2001; a copy of the “First Folio” was sold then for $6 million.

Perhaps the cause of his death was asthma, which he had suffered from since childhood, and which opp ...

Russia gained its "window on the world" that Peter I had so sought.

As a young man, Michelangelo was greatly impressed by the sermons of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominica ...

This language was used at home, so Russian became his first language. He did not start learning Ukrainian until he was an adult.