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…)

Torez Maurice (28/04/1900 – 07/11/1964), figure of the French and international workers' and communist movement. He was born in a miner. Before 1920 worked as a farmhand, a miner. In March 1919 joined the Socialist Party, was actively involved in the struggle for its adherence to the Comintern. (more…)

Marc Antony (83 BC X.) triumvir, son of praetor and grandson rhetorician Anthony, a relative of Caesar by his mother, Julia, was born in 1983 BC X.

As a young man led a very dissipated, pressed by creditors, he fled to Greece, where he began to listen to the philosophers and rhetoricians, but soon (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…)

Boleslaw III (Wrymouth). Son of King Wladyslaw Herman, who shared the Polish-ownership between him and his brother, Zbigniew. This led to the long years of strife between two brothers ended a victory B. With the help of the Bishop of Bamberg Otto, he converted to Christianity Pomeranian pagans (more…)

Beautiful Philip IV (Philippe le Bel) (1285 – 1314) – son of French King Philip III. His reign has played an important role in the decline of the political power of feudal lords and the strengthening monarchist France. He continued his father and grandfather, but the conditions (more…)

Andronicus (Andronikos) (1123 (in 1124) – 1185). In the Byzantine Empire: Andronicus I, Emperor from 1183, of the Comnenus dynasty. During the reign of Manuel I (1143-80) has organized a conspiracy against him, was in exile.

After the death of Manuel I, using (more…)

Kublai Khan (Kublai Setsen Hagan) (1264 – 1295) – the grandson of Genghis Khan, the son of Tula, the most famous after Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor. His main goal on the accession to the throne became the overthrow of the Sung dynasty in China. After a bitter and protracted struggle (more…)

Cleopatra – the name of many Egyptian and Syrian queens: 1) Syrian (Syra) – Queen of Egypt, the daughter of Antiochus III the Great, in 193 BC Hr. married Ptolemy V, bringing him a dowry Tselesiriyu. After the death of Ptolemy (180) K. ruled the country during the minority of his eldest son, Ptolemy (more…)

Trubetskaya Katherine (Laval) (21.11 (03.12) .1800 – 14 (26) .10.1854), the princess, the wife of the Decembrist SP Trubetskoy.

The first of the wives of the Decembrists, followed her husband to Siberia (July 1826).

In Irkutsk, detained by the authorities, formally (more…)