Biography

In 1977, he moved to London and formed the rock band "The Police" with musicians Stewart Copeland and Henri Padovani (soon replaced by Andy Summers).

After a year of apprenticeship in a painter's studio, he moved to the studio of the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni.

He was born into a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in Tyumen Oblast.

At the peak of his virtuoso fame, in the period 1796-1798, Beethoven experienced the first symptoms of deafness.

After returning from Paris to Dresden in June 1793, Kosciuszko developed the concept of organizing a national uprising.

William Shakespeare died in Stratford, at New Place on Chapel Street, on April 23, 1616.

"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.

Prince Jozef Poniatowski became the commander of the Polish crown army of 17.000 soldiers, and Tadeusz Kosciuszko became the commander of one of the three divisions.

The United States Military Academy at West Point has a statue of Kosciuszko and a commemorative plaque.

In one entry in the Stationer’s Register of Stationer’s Company of London, a Society established in 1403 with a monopoly on the publishing industry, Shakespeare, as well as John Fletcher, Shakespeare’s associate, is credited with the authorship of the play “Cardenio” staged by the King’s Men in 1613.