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…)
Struve, Peter Berngardovich (26/01/1870 – 02/26/1944), Russian politician, economist, philosopher, the chief representative of "Legal Marxism".
The son of the governor of the Perm. Graduated from the Faculty of St. Petersburg University (1895). In the 90 years (more…)
Maxim Litvinov (cf. Fam. And the name – Ballagh Max; pseudo party. – "Papa", Maksimovich, Felix, etc.) (05 (17) .07.1876 – 12.31.1951), Soviet politician and activist, diplomat. A member of the Communist Party since 1898. Born in a family servant.
From 1898, he led the Social-Democrats (more…)
Gurenko Stanislav I. (1936). Member of the Politburo from July 1990, was born in 1936 in Ilovaisk; in 1958, graduated from the Kiev Poly-Technical Institute, Ph.D. in Economics, from 1958 worked as engineer, senior design engineer, chief Laboratory Donetsk Machine-Building Plant. 15 th anniversary (more…)
Ribbentrop, Joachim (04/30/1893 – 16/10/1946), one of the main war criminals of Nazi Germany.
A sales agent for sparkling wines. In 1930, joined the Nazi Party and soon became one of the approximate A. Hitler.
When the fascists came to power (1933) headed a special office created (more…)
Stalin Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) (12/21/1879 – 05/03/1953), was born in the town of Gori, Tiflis Province. His father was a shoemaker. First, Stalin studied at the Gori Church School and graduated in 1894, and then entered the Tiflis Theological Seminary. Here he first began to engage (more…)
Engels, Friedrich (28/11/1820 – 08/05/1895), one of the founders of Marxism, leader and teacher of the international proletariat, a friend and associate of Karl Marx.
Engels was the son of a textile manufacturer. Father Engels, Friedrich Engels, a proponent of pietism, sought to give (more…)
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (07/03/1850 – 14/09/1937), Czechoslovak statesman and political figure, philosopher positivist.
He was educated in Vienna and Leipzig University. Since 1876 Doctor of Philosophy, 1882 – 1914 Professor of Philosophy, Charles University.
One of the founders (more…)
Karl Bernhard von Moltke Gellmut (1800 – 1891) – Germany's Field Marshal and politician, was descended from an old noble family, born in Mecklenburg, but studied at a military academy in Copenhagen, and first entered the Danish army, which at that time was his father (more…)
