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Tuesday, 2 June 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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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko died in Solothurn on October 15, 1817, at age 71, and was buried in nearby Zuchwil.
A year later, a coffin with Kosciuszko's embalmed body was brought back to the country and ceremonio ...
Constantine the Great
In 307 Constantine married Maximian's daughter Fausta.
Five years later Constantine became the sole ruler of the West (there were two emperors in total at that time).
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway and Pauline attended a three-month safari in Africa.
Their guide was Philip Hope Percival, who also hunted with Theodore Roosevelt in 1909. During the sa ...
Anna Pavlova
Anna was fascinated with ballet and dedicated her youth to becoming a ballet dancer.
When she was eight years old, her mother took her to the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to see ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
The composer was originally buried at the St. Marx cemetery in Vienna, from which in 1888 the remains of the deceased were moved to the newly established Central Cemetery in Vienna, where they were placed in a grave adjacent to Schubert's.
Beethoven's funeral took place on March 29, 1827, attended by over 10.000 people. Viennese (the city ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
After the death of Catherine II, Kosciuszko was freed from captivity by her successor, Tsar Paul I Romanov.
The price he had to pay for freeing 20.000 Poles from Russian prisons and gulags was to take an oath of allegiance and pledge not to return to Poland.
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 ...
Christopher Columbus
Columbus was accused of extreme brutality againts indigenious people.
Some claimed that he refused to baptize the natives just to have an opportunity to abuse them withou ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's return from Heiligenstadt to Vienna was marked by a change in musical style and is now often referred to as the beginning of his middle (heroic) period.
Shortly after Beethoven's breakdown, one of his most joyful works, Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 ...
Amadeus Mozart
The performances of talented children brought splendor and, above all, material benefits to the family.
Practically all of Amadeus' childhood was spent traveling and giving concerts at European courts, wh ...