Biography

Thursday, 27 November 2025

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Peter the Great
Peter the Great is Vladimir Putin's favorite historical figure.
Jane Austen
An admirer of Jane's novels was the Prince Regent - later King George IV, who kept a set of all her novels in every residence.
Upon hearing that Jane Austen was in London before the publication of "Emma," the Duke instructed hi ...
Aristotle
He was born in 384 BC in Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece.
A son of Nicomachus, a doctor to the Macedonian king, Amyntas, Aristotle was orphaned as a baby and placed under the care of a guardian named Proxenus of Atarneus.
Christopher Columbus
As a widower, Columbus met Beatriz Enriquez in Spain, whom he never married but left her a large portion of his fortune.
They formed a good relationship, Beatriz treated Diego as her own son and soon after, in 1488, she b ...
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.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
As an actor, he has appeared in Russian-language romantic comedies: the 3-part (2009, 2010, 2014) film "Love in the Big City," and the films "8 First Dates" (2012), "Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon" (2012) and "8 New Dates" (2015).
 In 2014 and 2017, he lent his voice to the title character in the films "Paddington" and "Paddington 2."
Michelangelo
Two years later, while in Bologna, he carved a candelabrum in the form of a kneeling naked angel and statues of saints: Petronius and Proculius, San Domenico.
Michelangelo left the Medici Palace after the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. He returned to his family home and worked on a sculpture of Hercules (this work was lost in the 18th century).
Antonio Vivaldi
After Vivaldi's death, his vast collection of musical manuscripts was bound into 27 large volumes.
They were acquired first by Venetian bibliophile Jacopo Soranzo and later by Count Giacomo Durazzo. ...
Ada Lovelace
Byron was disappointed by the birth of his daughter, he expected a son, "a wonderful boy". The girl was named after Byron's half-sister (his great love), Augusta Leighi; Byron called her Ada.
The marriage of Byron and Annabella Milbanke was not a happy one. Shortly after the birth of their d ...
Nikola Tesla
He lived from 1865 to 1943.
He was born on 10th July 1856, in Smiljana, Croatia (then Austrian Empire). In this village, on the ...