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Tuesday, 1 July 2025
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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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway attended school in Oak Park from 1913 to 1917.
He was very fond of sports and eagerly engaged in boxing, athletics, soccer and water polo. Hemingwa ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Faced with this state of affairs, he left for Dresden but did not find a position there either - he sought to enter service at the Saxon court or the Elector's army.
He left again for Paris and learned about the war in America - the war for American independence - t ...
Christopher Columbus
He traveled to the American mainland and reached the coast south of the mouth of the Orinoco.
Continuing along the coast in a westerly direction, the expedition discovered Trinidad. He then retu ...
Amadeus Mozart
In 1791, Wolfgang's librettist and friend Emanuel Schikaneder commissioned him to write "The Magic Flute" - a fairy tale opera (singspiel - opera with spoken interludes).
It is one of Mozart's most recognizable operas. Some see in it the author's connections with Freemas ...
Anna Pavlova
After her performance in Giselle, she became a prima ballerina in 1906.
It was an extremely difficult performance, especially demanding for a dancer with only seven years of experience.
Anna Pavlova
In 1909, she traveled to Paris and toured with the Ballets Russes.
The Ballets Russes was founded by Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev in Paris in 1909. For the next 20 years ...
Frederic Chopin
Since 1927 the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition has been held in Warsaw.
It is the oldest monographic music competition in the world. Its author was Jerzy Żurawlew, a Polish ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko was the first person in 1792 to be awarded the Virtuti Militari gold medal.
He later replaced the medal with the Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari.
Peter the Great
Peter the Great is Vladimir Putin's favorite historical figure.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's death was attended by his friend Anselm Huttenbrenner and probably his sister-in-law, Johanna van Beethoven.
According to Huttenbrenner, around 5 p.m. there was a flash of lightning and thunder: "Beethoven opened his eyes, raised his right hand and looked up for a few seconds with a clenched fist...".