Gustav II Adolf (1594 – 06/11/1632) – King of Sweden, son of Charles IX and Christina of Holstein, was born in 1594 in Nikepinge, ascended the throne in 1611, his twenty-year reign is with one of the most brilliant pages in the history of Sweden is important important he was, and in world history. Charles (more…)

Philip II (1527 – 1598) – Spanish King. The son and heir of Charles V, with the FA in 1554 was considered the king of Naples and Sicily, and from 1555, after the rejection of his father from the throne – the King of Spain, the Netherlands and the owner of all overseas possessions of Spain. (more…)

Tomasso Campanella (1568 – 1639) – Italian philosopher and communist, was born in Calabria, in early youth entered the Dominican order, but soon discovered a great free-thinking in religious matters, has incurred the hatred of theologians and had to leave their homeland.

In 1598, he returned to Naples, he was captured along with (more…)

Marquise de Pompadour (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson) (1721 – 1764) – mistress of King Louis XV. Her father, Poisson, was at one time a lackey, then the supplier of the commissariat, incompetent and dishonest. In Antoinette's fate took a large part Syndic Lenormand de Turnem; perhaps he was her real father. Thanks Lenormand, P. received an excellent (more…)

Andreev Sergey (22/03/1954). Member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg's first (1994-1998), second (1998-2002) and third (from 2002) convocations, born March 22, 1954 in Leningrad, graduated from the Biological Faculty of the Leningrad State University (more…)

Yermachenko Stanislav V. (09/06/1938). Former chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai, was a member of the Federation Council of Federal Assembly of Russia, was a member of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Affairs, Federal Treaty and regional politics.

Born September 6, 1938; graduated Kranoyarsky (more…)

Vasily the Dark (1425 – 1462), reign of his son VD showed that the strength, significance and direction of Moscow's policy was not dependent on the personality of the prince. Vladimir was a man of weak character and evil, never showed neither political (more…)

Milov, Vladimir S. – former Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia (May – November 2002) graduated from the Moscow Mining Institute majoring in mechanical engineering technology; worked at the All-Union Research and Design Technological Institute of the coal machine building, then in the Open Company TD Sidanko (more…)

Ypsilanti – fanariotskaya family, whose origin dates back to Comneni, she moved from Trebizond to Constantinople in the XV century, and exhibited in the era of the Greek struggle for independence a number of freedom fighters.

Alexander Ypsilanti Senior (died 1816) was from 1774 to 1798 years. then rulers of Wallachia, (more…)

Dmitry Troubetzkoy T. (died 06/24/1625), Russian political and military figure of the early 17 century, the prince.

First mentioned in December 1608, when after the battle at Khodynka "drove away" in Tushynskiy camp. When False Dmitry II became a boyar.

In 1611 was one of the organizers (more…)