Biography

The novel "Mansfield Park" was published in 1814 in three volumes. The Star magazine advertised it as a new novel by the author of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility."

During World War I, Hemingway sought to be sent to the Italian front.

In 1712, Peter the Great received the Order of the White Eagle - the oldest and highest state decoration of the Republic of Poland, awarded for distinguished civil and military merits for the benefit of the Republic of Poland.

California Goldrush drove him into bankruptcy.

Michelangelo began his artistic career as a painter and then devoted the last thirty years to sculpture.

In 1836 Frederic Chopin got engaged to Maria Wodzińska, but the wedding never happened.

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

Peter I dreamed of bringing Russia as a strong, modernized, accepted state into the arena of European politics.

Shakespeare’s works were published seven years after the poet’s death in 1623 under the title “Mr. William Shakespeare Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.” The contemporary title of the first collection is “First Folio.”

Ernest Hemingway owned a fishing boat, “Pilar,” which he sailed around the Caribbean.