Biography

Monday, 29 December 2025

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
He participated in the longest press conference in history, lasting 14 hours.
During the conference held on October 10 - 11, 2019, President Zelenski answered 500 questions.
Rasputin
A bystander to the event reported it to the police, and an investigation was launched, resulting in Rasputin's body being fished out of the river.
An examination of the corpse revealed that the victim was still alive when thrown into the water. Rasputin's right hand was freed from its bonds, and water was present in his lungs.
Kate Middleton
In her youth, Kate Middleton took up employment in various areas.
During her school days, she took up the usual casual employment for young people; she was a store at ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
An opportunity arose for Kosciuszko to pursue a military career in the army of the Republic, as one of the first resolutions of the Four-Year Sejm was to raise the army to 100,000.
In October 1789, Kosciuszko received an appointment signed by the King as a major general of the cro ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
It is said that the night before Caesar died, Calpurnia dreamed of a scene in which her stabbed husband dies in her embrace.
In the morning she told him of her fears and asked him not to go to the Senate that day. After much ...
Frederic Chopin
The composer returned to Paris shortly before Napoleon Bonaparte was elected President of the Second French Republic.
Chopin's state of health was very bad, and the only homeopath doctor who could help the artist died.
Ernest Hemingway
A cat named Big Boy Peterson accompanied Hemingway in his last moments at the Idaho estate.
Hemingway’s Cuban residence, the Finca, was home to sixty cats and many dogs, to which Hemingway cou ...
Amadeus Mozart
The ambitious father decided to showcase his talented children at European princely courts.
Amadeus made his first foreign trip to Munich at the age of six. The family's next tour took them th ...
Peter the Great
Meddling in the Polish election, Peter I supported the election of August II the Strong as king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1697.
Anna Pavlova
Anna graduated from the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet School at the age of 18.
The same year, she joined the Imperial Russian Ballet.