Biography

Wednesday, 25 February 2026

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Charles III
His marriage to Lady Diana was tumultuous from the start.
The couple had two sons: Wilhelm (born June 21, 1982) and Henry (born September 15, 1984). The famil ...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Zelensky's family has Jewish roots.
Zelensky's great-grandparents perished in the Holocaust, as did his grandfather's three brothers. As ...
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Michelangelo
Two years later, while in Bologna, he carved a candelabrum in the form of a kneeling naked angel and statues of saints: Petronius and Proculius, San Domenico.
Michelangelo left the Medici Palace after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. He returned to his family home and worked on a sculpture of Hercules (this work was lost in the 18th century).
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Roland Garros
At the age of four, he moved with his parents to Saigon, where his father opened a law office.
He lived in Saigon until the age of twelve, when his parents sent him to Paris to study at the priva ...
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Peter the Great
While in The Hague, he regularly attended parliamentary sessions (as an observer), visited scholars, and toured palaces, picture galleries, and museums.
He took a keen interest in minutiae, "trying to pinch a particle from each discipline for his own us ...
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Amadeus Mozart
In Munich, Amadeus met the sixteen-year-old soprano Aloysia Weber and fell in love with her.
They wanted to travel together, but this was strongly opposed by Mozart's father. So Amadeus embarke ...
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Salvador Dali
Dali was fascinated by Hitler.
He claimed that he often dreams of him, like other men dream of women.
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Peter the Great
He built from scratch the new city of St. Petersburg, to which he moved the country's capital.
In 1721, the Senate proclaimed Tsar Peter the Great as Emperor of All-Russia.
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Peter the Great
Peter the Great died on February 8, 1725, in St. Petersburg.
He is buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral on the grounds of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
After assuming dictatorial power in France, Napoleon began a very vigorous effort to organize the functioning of the country.
To win the favor of the aristocracy, he declared an amnesty for royalist émigrés, who were allowed t ...
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