Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher. Early years Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig. His father was an ethics teacher. At an early age, Gottfried is sent to the Nikolsk school of Leipzig. Until his death in 1652, the father himself taught the son of history. By … Read more
(1892 – 1977) Fedin Konstantin Alexandrovich (1892 – 1977), the prose writer. Born February 12 (24 N. s.) In Saratov in the family of a merchant-writer, a self-taught poet. Children and teenage years passed in Saratov. At the age of seven, I entered elementary school, then I began to learn how to play the violin. … Read more
Vincent van Gogh is an artist who paints in the style of post-impressionism. Born Vincent on March 30, 1853 in the Netherlands. The first education in the biography of Vincent van Gogh was obtained at the age of seven in a village school. A year later he began to study at home. And already in … Read more
Keanu Reeves is an actor, musician, famous for his participation in the film “The Matrix”. Born Keanu Reeves on September 2, 1964 in Beirut. Reeves has mixed roots, among his ancestors: Englishmen, Irish, Hawaiians, Chinese. His father was a geologist, and in the family except Kian was brought up three more sisters. When the boy … Read more
(1891-1938) MANDELSHTAM Osip Emilievich (1891-1938), Russian poet. He began as a representative of acmeism. Poetry is saturated with cultural and historical images and motifs, marked by a concrete material perception of the world, a tragic experience of the destruction of culture. Collections “The Stone” (1913), “Tristia” (1922), the cycle “Voronezh Notebooks” (published 1966). The book … Read more
Alexander Stepanovich Popov is a physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, known as a Russian radio creator. Alexander was born in a small village in the Urals in the family of a priest. The first education in the biography of Alexander Popov was received in the theological school. Then he began to study at the theological seminary … Read more
(1955 – 1968) (1955-1968). All these circumstances-war, camp, Stalin’s death in 1953, and Khrushchov’s report on the tragic consequences of Stalin’s cult of personality at the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956-should be taken into account as facts of Solzhenitsyn’s spiritual biography. He took them much deeper than many others. The first Solzhenitsyn’s works … Read more
(O. Henry) [pseudonym; real name – William Sidney Porter (11.9.1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, 5.6.1910, New York), an American writer. After graduating from school, he served in a pharmacy, received a diploma of a pharmacist. In 1894, the editor-publisher of a humorous weekly, in which he published his first literary experiments. He worked as a cashier-accountant … Read more
(born October 23, 1932) He was born into a peasant family in the village of Timonikha, Kharovsky district of the Vologda region. He studied at the FZO school in the town of Sokol, Vologda region, worked as a carpenter, minder, electrician. After serving in the army (19521955) he worked at a plant in Perm, then … Read more
John Rawls is an American academician, philosopher and writer. Childhood and early years John Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, to the family of lawyer William Lee Rawls and his wife Anne Abel Stamp Rawls. Even in his early childhood, the boy experiences a tremendous emotional shock, when, one by one, two of his … Read more