Biography

There are also hypotheses that Rasputin's assassination was inspired by British intelligence, which feared a separatist truce between Russia and Germany, which Rasputin urged on the Tsar.

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.

After several years of struggling with disability, Beethoven was forced to completely give up public performances and devote himself exclusively to composing.

When Congress paid him the outstanding money, even though his financial situation was not the best, he used the entire amount he received to buy freedom and educate the colored population.

Kosciuszko was depicted in many paintings.

The last Pieta he made for the cathedral in Florence was intended in his last will for his tomb.

After the master's death, a letter to the Immortal Beloved was found in a hidden drawer of the desk (found together with, among others, the Heiligenstadt Testament).

Eight-year-old Amadeus gave concerts at Versailles for Louis XV and at Buckingham Palace for George III.

Rasputin managed to stop the Tsar's bleeding several times, for which he was honored by the Tsarina with a special position at the Tsar's court.

Alfred Nobel lived between 1833 and 1896.