Biography

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
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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Amadeus Mozart
During this stay, while in Rome at the Sistine Chapel, the fourteen-year-old Mozart heard Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere."
"Miserere" was a piece composed around 1638 and was the last and most famous of the twelve falsobord ...
Sting
Throughout his career, Sting has been and continues to be an ardent advocate of human rights and environmental issues.
In 2001, he has been decorated with the Gabriela Mistral medal, one of Chile's highest state honors. ...
Constantine the Great
In 325 he decided to establish the capital in the city of Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople - the city of Constantine (now Istanbul).
The inauguration ceremony of the new capital city took place in the year 330. The city later became ...
Rasputin
The decision was made to end Rasputin's life, but he wasn't an easy target.
The Tsar suffered defeats at the front, and the situation in the country was very unstable, so there ...
Nikola Tesla
In 1913, Tesla patented a bladeless disc turbine - his 100th patent.
Tesla was mainly concerned with the subject of electricity. He experimented with various methods of ...
Hypatia
Hypatia is considered to be the first woman in history to make a significant contribution to the development of mathematics, astronomy and philosophy.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
His mother tongue is Russian.
This language was used at home, so Russian became his first language. He did not start learning Ukrainian until he was an adult.
Jane Austen
Made in 1996, this adaptation of "Emma" received 2 Oscar nominations - it won the statuette for Best Original Score.
The title character, Emma Woodhouse, was played by Gwyneth Partlow.
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 ...
Michelangelo
The son overcame his father's resistance and entered the studio of Domenico Ghirlandaio, a famous Florentine painter at the age of thirteen.
He learned the fresco painting technique from him and seemed to have discovered his vocation, but then he became fascinated by sculpture. Again he had to convince his father to change his decisions.