Biography

Saturday, 18 April 2026

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Peter the Great
The envoy consisted of 200-250 people accompanying three plenipotentiary deputies (ambassadors).
These included three governors: Novgorod, Siberia, and Belov.
Charles Darwin
He was born on 12 February 1809 in the small English town of Shrewsbury, in the family home of The Mount.
He came from a wealthy family of Robert Darwin, a physician and financier, and Susannah Wedgwood - h ...
Roland Garros
In 1988, a 10-franc coin with a portrait of Roland Garros was released in France.
It was a gesture to commemorate the 100th birthday of the aviator.
Michelangelo
When he achieved his first successes as a young boy, his father was only interested in whether money could be made from his work.
To his father and brothers, he became the fulfillment of their dreams of a wealthy life. In their op ...
Frederic Chopin
The dying Chopin asked that after his death his heart be taken from his body and sent to Warsaw.
The heart, which was in a vessel filled with alcohol, was secretly smuggled into the country in Janu ...
Jane Austen
In 1818, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasions" were published.
The first novel was written between 1798 and 1799 under the title - "Susan." Although the manuscript ...
Christopher Columbus
This time the king responded decisively, sending Francisco Fernandez de Bobadilla west, equipped with far-reaching powers.
Upon arriving in Haiti, Bobadilla had Columbus and his son Diego arrested and sent back to Spain in ...
Michelangelo
His education was handled by two thinkers and philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, the Athenian school founder in Florence and one of the most famous figures of the early Renaissance, and Count Giovanni della Mirandola.
Michelangelo, then seventeen years old, created the bas-reliefs Madonna at the Stairs and Battle of the Centaurs. These two reliefs are now in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence.
Gaius Julius Caesar
Caesar's visit to Egypt resulted in an affair with Cleopatra and a civil war.
The so-called Alexandrian War was fought between the supporters of Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleop ...
Frederic Chopin
Chopin began learning the piano quite early, at the turn of his fourth and fifth year.
His mother gave him lessons.