Biography

The young, eight-year-old Chopin played in Warsaw for the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, to whom he offered two of his Polish dances.

Ada Lovelace befriended her tutor Mary Somerville.Mary Somerville was a Scottish physicist, writer and scholar. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel (a British astronomer) were elected as the first honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.

He was such a gifted student that he completed the third and fourth grades in one year and the eighth grade in six months. In his last year of school he became interested in chemistry.

Shakespeare’s father, John, was among the respected citizens of Stratford.

While in The Hague, he regularly attended parliamentary sessions (as an observer), visited scholars, and toured palaces, picture galleries, and museums.

He left his job with the archbishop and moved to Vienna.

At a very young age, he lost his younger brother Thomas due to illness, and his mother died shortly thereafter.

In her free time, the Princess indulges her second passion - cooking.

During his stay in the Netherlands, Peter was employed in a shipyard belonging to the East India Company as a simple laborer, demanding to call him Peter Timmerman van Zaandam (Peter, the carpenter of Zaandam).

In Paris, Chopin presented himself in the salons of Pleyel, an elite of the musical world of the time, and achieved great success.