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…)
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…)
Shafirov Petr Pavlovich (1669 – 01 (12) .03.1739), Russian statesman and diplomat, Baron (from 1710).
Born to Jewish parents. Since 1691, as his father, served as translator Ambassadors order. In 1697 – 1698 participated in the Grand Embassy to Western Europe, during (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…)
Mancini – Italian surname, which reached a large value of the property due to the cardinal (Michael Lorenzo Mancini was married to the sister Mazarin).
A nephew of Mazarin, Philip Julian Mancini, became the Duke of Nevers, a niece of Laura (1636 (more…)
Alcibiades (Gr. AlkibiadhV) (451 BC X. – BC 404 X.) – one of the finest Athenian statesmen and generals, the son of wedges and Deynomahi, was born in Athens, 451 BC X.
After losing the battle of the Crown (447) his father, he was brought up again in the house of his cousin, the famous Pericles. Even in adolescence, we see it next (more…)
Susanin Ivan – farmer Kostroma district with. Domnina owned by the Romanovs, known as the savior of the life of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Until very recently, the only documentary source on the life and deeds were letters patent S. Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, which he gave in 1619, with (more…)
William the Conqueror (1027 – 9/7/1087) – King of England (1066 – 1087) was born in 1027 and was the natural son of the Duke of Normandy Robert II the Devil. In 1033, when Robert the Devil went on a pilgrimage to Palestine, VA was recognized as his heir. At the news of death of Robert (1035), and Norman barons in charge of their deceased (more…)
George Nathaniel Curzon (01/11/1859 – 03/20/1925) British statesman and diplomat. Conservative.
One of most prominent voice of the imperialist bourgeoisie and the landed aristocracy. In 1899-1905 the Viceroy of India, cruelly suppressing the national liberation movement.
In 1919-24 (more…)
Macbeth – King of Scots (1040 – 1057), as well as his rival, Duncan I, was a grandson of King Malcolm II. He defeated and killed Duncan in 1010 at Dunsinane (in Perthshire) and regulations vigorously, by perturbing the severity of his nobles, of whom MACDUFF, Thane fayfsky, fled to England and moved to the revenge of Duncan's (more…)