Biography

Friday, 16 October 2026

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Rasputin
As a "saintly man," he returned to his native village, where a crowd of female admirers awaited him.
Accompanied by them, he made several pilgrimages to Verkhoturia, to the grave of one of the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church, Simeon Verkhotursky.
Salvador Dali
He had eccentric ideas already in high school.
From this period he was remembered not as an extremely talented student but for creating a spectacle in which he threw himself down the stairs in front of the entire school audience.
Amadeus Mozart
He left his job with the archbishop and moved to Vienna.
He settled in a room rented from Aloysius Weber's family. Aloysia was already married at the time, b ...
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s works have inspired filmmakers. Some 420 full-length films were based on his works.
The 1990 “Hamlet” by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close, was nominated for an Os ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born in 1746 in Mereczowszczyzna near Kosovo in Polesia.
In the first half of the 18th century, the Mereczowszczyzna manor was owned by the Sapieh family. In ...
Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great is a saint of the Orthodox Church.
The Orthodox Church calls him an equal of the Apostles. His feast day is May 21.
Robert Oppenheimer
He became a very popular professor and was nicknamed "Oppie".
The first year of his professorship went poorly, he could not relate to the students, could not expl ...
Peter the Great
He was the first Russian tsar to travel abroad.
In 1697-1698, he embarked on an official diplomatic, 18-month mission called the “Grand Embassy,” tr ...
Nikola Tesla
Edison was surprised by Tesla's success and began campaigning on the dangers of using A.C.
Tesla's installations began to take over the market for the production and transmission of electrici ...
William Shakespeare
In February 1599, he and other members of the Lord Chamberlain’s troupe leased a plot of land on the south bank of the Thames, where they built the magnificent amphitheater “The Globe.”
It began its fall activities with Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar.” Seats were on three floors. Th ...