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Thursday, 15 January 2026
32 facts about Peter the Great
32 facts about Peter the Great
The first Emperor of all Russia
Peter the Great is considered one of Russia's greatest rulers. He was a great reformer, strategist, and builder who was the first of the tsars to trav ...

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Anna Pavlova
Anna was advised to undergo surgery due to her illness but refused since it would have meant she would not be able to perform any longer.
She decided she would rather die than end her career in such a manner.
Michelangelo
At his father's request, Michelangelo returned to Florence, where he undertook the statue of David.
The statue stood in front of the palace of the Signoria of Florence. During this time, he also creat ...
Salvador Dali
Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo.
During his career he created many advertisements and logos.
Rasputin
He did not have a good reputation even in his home village.
Rasputin did not attend school and helped his father occasionally in the wagon business, transportin ...
Jane Austen
Jane had numerous siblings - six brothers and one sister.
Her eldest brother James was ordained to the priesthood and served in the parish of Steventon toward ...
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway worked as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance agency (NANA) during the Spanish Civil War.
While in Spain, he was accompanied by American journalist Martha Gellhorn, who became his third wife ...
Antonio Vivaldi
Beginning in 1718, a period of Vivaldi's travels in Europe began.
He spent the first two years at the court of Margrave Hesse-Darmstad in Mantua, where he was mainly engaged in composing secular music.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest had a problematic relationship with his domineering mother, who overshadowed even her husband.
She demanded a great deal from her children, insisting they participate in activities she considered ...
Anna Pavlova
Some sources claim Anna wished to be considered a product of her mother’s early marriage, so she claimed her father was a man named Pavel, who died when she was a toddler.
She claimed he was married to her mother before she married Matvej Pavlov.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He spent several years of his early childhood in Mongolia.
When he was a few years old, the family moved to Erdenet - now the second largest city in Mongolia a ...