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Monday, 27 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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Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin was a Russian peasant claiming to be an Orthodox monk, a mystic, and a favorite of the family of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov.
No details of his birth date exist; he was probably born in January 1869, although he gave different birth dates at various stages of his life.
Ernest Hemingway
Grace Hall-Hemingway followed the Victorian convention of not differentiating children’s clothing by gender.
She wanted the eldest daughter Marcelline and the year younger Ernest to look like twins. So the chi ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
During his studies he became interested in comedy and theater.
He created his own miniature theater called "Homeless". Soon he founded his own troupe "Kryvyi Rih" ...
Nikola Tesla
Tesla and Edison were in constant conflict.
In 1915, a report by the Reuters Agency claimed a Nobel Prize for Tesla and Edison, but the news was ...
Anna Pavlova
Anna’s ashes are stored in a columbarium at Golders Green Crematorium.
Her urn was decorated with a ballet shoe, which was stolen. Currently, the decoration involves a dancing ballerina and a swan.Dandré’s urn is placed below his wife’s.
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 ...
Charles III
He became heir to the British throne when he was less than 3.5 years old. Charles' grandfather, King George VI, died on February 6, 1952, making the then 26-year-old Elizabeth Queen.
Although Charles was first in line to the British throne at such a young age, he had to wait another ...
Hypatia
Her father guided Hypatia's education. It is likely that he instilled in her an interest in science. She studied philosophy, but also specialised in mathematics and astronomy.
Together with her father, she worked on the edition of Euclid's Elements and commentaries on the wor ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
In 2006 he won the Ukrainian edition of "Dancing with the Stars".
In the program he danced with his partner Olena Shoptenko. After this performance he became probably ...
Ernest Hemingway
In Paris, Hemingway met Gertrude Stein, James Joys and Ezra Pound, who helped young artists develop their careers.
Gertrude Stein, one of the most influential authors of modernism, became Hemingway’s mentor. She int ...