Biography

Sunday, 14 December 2025

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Peter the Great
The reforms introduced by Peter the Great over the years affected the military, administration, economy, as well as education, culture, and the Orthodox Church.
He established a table of ranks. The first to be introduced were changes in customs (boyars had to s ...
Michelangelo
He had many plans and dreams connected with his art, but he failed to achieve them all.
As his most significant failure, he considered the completion of Pope Julius II's tomb in the form h ...
Anna Pavlova
Anna settled at the Ivy House in Golders Green, London, in 1912.
She never returned to Russia, instead lived in England for the rest of her life.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko decided to set sail for North America.
He set sail in June 1776, probably from Le Havre, on a voyage that lasted more than two months. He a ...
Hypatia
The exact date of Hypatia's birth is not known.
She was probably born around 355 or 370. Such dates are given in her biographies, written by ancient scholars decades after her death. Most modern scholars believe that Hypatia was born in 370.
Salvador Dali
Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo.
During his career he created many advertisements and logos.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Kosciuszko's stay in Paris lasted five years.
Pre-revolutionary France at the time made a huge impression on him, translating into his political and social beliefs.
Jane Austen
"Northanger Abbey" is a parody of the so-called Gothic novel, a literary genre extremely popular in Britain at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The novel's main character - young and naive Catherine- must learn to distinguish between reality an ...
Homer
The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War.
It depicts episodes from the final phase of the conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans - Homer ...
Marilyn Monroe
She underwent psychoanalysis.
She decided to do so under the influence of Lee Strasberg.