Biography

Tuesday, 7 April 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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Homer
The epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are the oldest monuments of Greek and European literature in general.
 Thanks to these two works, Homer is considered one of the pillars of modern Western literature, serving as a source of inspiration and knowledge of antiquity.
Amadeus Mozart
Since both Amadeus and Nannerl showed musical ability, the father gave up his career and devoted himself to the children's musical education.
Amadeus learned to play the harpsichord from the age of five (even as a three-year-old, he listened ...
Anna Pavlova
She was not only exceptionally talented but ambitious, dedicated, and hardworking.
She claimed that although talent is given by God, hard work transforms it into genius. Anna had to o ...
Frederic Chopin
On November 5, 1830, Chopin left Poland for good.
During his journey to Paris, Stuttgart,he learned of the fall of the November Rising and suffered a ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s lineage died out 25 years after his death.
His son, Hamnet, died at eleven. Daughter Susannah had no children, and daughter Judith’s children died early. None of Shakespeare’s three brothers were married.
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer collected European furniture and French Post-Impressionist and Fauvist artworks.
His collection included works by Cezanne, Derain, Despiau, de Vlamnick, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, van Gogh, Vuillard and others.
Salvador Dali
He had sadistic tendencies in his childhood.
In his memoirs he wrote that at the age of five, he dropped a child out of a bridge for no reason. T ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Towards the end of his life, Beethoven received many tokens of recognition.
Among other things, he became a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and received a gold medal ...
Amadeus Mozart
In 1809, Constance remarried.
Her chosen one was the Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, who was a great admirer of Mozart' ...
Charles Darwin
He became one of the best students.
In the final examinations he placed tenth out of 178 people. The reading of numerous naturalistic wo ...