Gleb (Prince Pereyaslavs'kyi and Kiev) (died 20.01.1171) – son of Grand Prince Yuri Dolgoruki. He was first mentioned in chronicles in 1146 This year Kolteske death of his brother John Y.. Bitterly mourned the deceased, Gleb and his brother Boris took the body of John in the Suzdal to his father (more…)

Albert the Bear (Albrecht der Bar) (1100 – 18/11/1170), the first Margrave of Brandenburg in 1150, the house Ascanio. Received in 1134 from Emperor Lothar III Northern brand, began the conquest of land Slav lyutichey. To this end, participated in the crusade against the Slavs 1147, failed. In 1150, after (more…)

Belshazzar – the last Babylonian king, whose name is mentioned in the biblical story of the fall of Babylon (Daniel V, 1 – 30). Despite the siege of the capital taken by Cyrus, the king and all the inhabitants, having at his wealth of products that could blithely indulge in the pleasures of life. On the occasion of a holiday (more…)

Abraham Lincoln (02/12/1809 – 04/15/1865) was born February 12, 1809 on a small farm in Hardin, Kentucky. Lincoln's father was a farmer.

In 1816 his family moved to southwest Indiana. The younger brother of Lincoln died in childhood, in the age of nine Lincoln has lost his mother, and several years later dies of his elder sister. (more…)

Julius Caesar (100 – 03.15.1944 BC Chr.) – A famous Roman statesman and writer. He was born, according to ancient historians, in 100 BC, the Chr. Mommsen finds it incompatible with the career of Caesar and offers, without sufficient reason (according to the leges annales), 102 BC, the Chr. Julia was born (more…)

Catherine de Medici (1519 – 1589) – Queen of the French. Her father, Lorenzo, who bore the titles of Duke of Urbino, the son of Peter and nephew of the Medici Pope Leo X. Her mother, of the house de la Tour d'Auvergne, was a Frenchwoman. Early childhood orphaned E. coincided with tumultuous (more…)

Vercingetorix (Vercingetorix) (died 46 BC), the leader of the tribe of Arverne in central Gaul, the enemy of Julius Caesar. In 52 BC, when Caesar actually conquered all Gaul, Vercingetorix Arverni elected their king. Junior Vercingetorix, who had, apparently, a great gift for organization, was able to raise obschegallskoe revolt and build (more…)

Aliyev Heydar Aliyev (1923). President of Azerbaijan Republic (06.1993 – 10.2003).

Politburo member (1982-1987), a candidate member of Politburo (1976-1982), member of the CPSU Central Committee (1971-1989), born in 1923 in the city of Nakhchivan of Azerbaijan. (more…)

Vaclav Holy (d. 936), Duke Czech, son of the Duke Vratislav and pagan Dragomir. B. was raised by his grandmother (mother's father) in Christianity and religiosity differed from childhood, being a duke, he zealously introduced Christianity in the Czech Republic, was friendly with the German Emperor Henry (more…)

False Dmitry II (12.11.1610 died), nicknamed "Tushino" impostor, speaking on the scene in 1607, primarily in Starodub Seversky; origin of the dark, comes probably from Belarus, a well-known Russian grammar and the whole church circle, said and Polish, according to some – Popovich, on the other (more…)