Biography

Wednesday, 21 October 2026

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Rasputin
After the revolution and the overthrow of the monarchy, the new government ordered that the coffin containing the body be brought out and burned.
The ashes were scattered to the wind.
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Peter the Great
Peter I dreamed of bringing Russia as a strong, modernized, accepted state into the arena of European politics.
He wanted to establish permanent diplomatic relations with European courts to gain their support in ...
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Michelangelo
Wanting to learn more about human anatomy, he secretly performed autopsies in the hospital (Santo Spirito Monastery).
As a token of his gratitude, Michelangelo carved a wooden crucifix for the monastery, which is the only polychrome wooden sculpture in the artist's oeuvre.
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Anna Pavlova
She was not only exceptionally talented but ambitious, dedicated, and hardworking.
She claimed that although talent is given by God, hard work transforms it into genius. Anna had to o ...
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Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was a compulsive smoker. In late 1965, he was diagnosed with throat cancer.
He underwent surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. While at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, he fell into a coma and soon died on February 18, 1967, at the age of 62.
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Jane Austen
The novel Pride and Prejudice was written between October 1796 and August 1797.
Jane revised a manuscript titled "First Impressions" in 1812 and with the revised title was publishe ...
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Anna Pavlova
In 1909, she traveled to Paris and toured with the Ballets Russes.
The Ballets Russes was founded by Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev in Paris in 1909. For the next 20 years ...
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Sting
His bandmate from "Phoenix Jazzman" gave him the nickname Sting because of the black and yellow striped sweater he often wore during performances.
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Tadeusz Kosciuszko
During the uprising, Kosciuszko reformed the Polish army, introducing many innovations.
Due to the lack of sufficient weapons, he ordered the formation of peasant troops armed with war scy ...
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Frederic Chopin
At that time Chopin did indeed begin to fall seriously ill, probably with tuberculosis, although recently it has been said that it could be cystic fibrosis.
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