Biography

As he traveled around the country, he met with representatives of the official Orthodox Church, adherents of various religious sects, and ordinary people at markets, railroad stations, and river stops.

Even as a child Frederic made numerous appearances in the salons of the Warsaw aristocracy.

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi also known as "The Red Priest" - Il Prete Rosso - was born in 1678 in Venice.

She underwent head surgery as a child.

Jane Austen was an expert at brewing spruce beer.

While acquiring a maritime practice, Columbus simultaneously educated himself by reading the writings of ancient and classical writers Strabo, Seneca, and Aristotle, as well as his humanist contemporaries.

"Northanger Abbey" is a parody of the so-called Gothic novel, a literary genre extremely popular in Britain at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Michelangelo showed artistic interests at a young age.

During his first two-week visit to Vienna in 1787, he almost certainly met Mozart.

He is now one of the main targets of the Russian invaders.