Who did she love and who did she hate? Who did she have to be with, and who did she really want? For whom was she ready for the highest sacrifice? Time to meet relatives and friends of the papal daughter Lucrezia Borgia. And this is a collection of the most eminent figures of the beginning of the It
Barely Chrobry took full power from his father, and he was already face to face with a gang of thugs armed to the teeth. Only a miracle saved the skin. He never found out who the architect of the plot was. After a thousand years, its time to know the answer. It was August 1002 and the Polish pri
Sygryda Storråda, also known as Świętosławą. There is no other heroine so extraordinary in the history of medieval Poland. The famous Viking queen has been devoted to a whole sea of articles, novels and scientific works. And there is only one problem with it. New research shows that there was no s
Nerves of steel, maniacal stubbornness and unwavering faith in the greater thing. In 1922, Maria becomes the first lady. But already in her youth she proved that she can take on much more than just salon duties. It is 1894. Maria Kiersnowska is less than 24 years old - she was born on December 1
Not so long ago she was one of Józef Piłsudskis closest friends. Now, involuntarily, they stood on either side of the barricade. Was it their private dispute that in May 1926 almost 400 people lost their lives, and the Polish experiment with democracy became history? It was not easy for Stanisła
He is the patron saint of children, bakers, virgins and the poor. We imagine him either as a venerable bishop or as a jovial old man in a red suit. One detail is difficult to reconcile with this image. Our favorite saint once became the protagonist of a huge criminal scandal! Italy has been cons
Louis XV is remembered mainly for his romance with Mrs. Pompadour and marriage with a Polish woman. However, this ruler held the record in a completely different field. At 31, when many men are just starting to think about marrying, he was already a grandfather! And its in a totally twisted family.
This lady wasnt worth messing with. The men who shared their affection with her found this out. It only took an innocent look at another woman to end up in one of the tin coffins in her basement. Until the end of her days, she claimed that she murdered partners out of love ... Little is known ab
It wasnt an ordinary WWII love story. It started quite dramatically. He, she and the gas chamber. Except ... she was Hitlers sister, he was a Nazi doctor to die, and her cousin was called gassing. In January 1932, Adolf Hitlers distant cousin, Aloisia Veit, started freaking out. She had been wor
During official ceremonies and visits of heads of state, they always stand in the place of honor. Beautiful, dressed by the best tailors and combed by the masters of hairdressing. They are the showcase of their husbands. Things are quite different in Belarus. Although Alexander Lukashenka has been m
For anti-Semites, the Jewish origin of the Nobel Prize winner was a stone of offense. Jewish newspapers proudly indicated that Maria Skłodowska-Curie belonged to the Chosen People. But was the discoverer of radium and one of the most distinguished Polish women in history really Jewish? It is dif
Could sex symbols exist in a country where sex officially did not exist? Of course. We present a woman to whom the entire male population of Soviet Russia sighed. After her film debut, Stalin himself came up and promised to grant her every wish. There comes a point in every womans life when sh
The daughter of the Polish king, Przemysł II, Ryks, was a woman famous for her beauty. Beauty did not bring her happiness in love, however. By some strange coincidence her men were dying over and over again ... leaving her with hefty sums and royal titles. Coincidence? Princess Ryksa was born in P
Her love letters ignite the imagination to this day. She was one of the few rulers to experience marital happiness. Yet her subjects hated her. In her youth, she was considered a pet of the queen, a French agent and an illegitimate daughter. Right? When Ludwika Maria Gonzaga de Nevers left for P
When she sat on the throne, she had only her wits at her disposal in the struggle for influence. She quickly understood that the shortest path to political decisions of a Polish magnate ... was through his bed. She has formed a legion of beautiful and ruthless women. These French flies and their alk
The most beautiful woman of her age. The Second Helena Trojan. Historians and writers have never restrained themselves when they had to describe the extraordinary beauty of Barbara Radziwiłłówna. It turns out that these praises are not very firmly embedded in reality. The myth about the beautifu
The dating section (or a modern dating site) can be a great way to earn money easily. On one condition:as long as you are not afraid to get your hands dirty ... with blood. Dating advertisements were very fashionable at the end of the 19th century. The lady wrote that she was looking for a compani
She was sixteen, with alabaster, slightly pink skin, a storm of fiery hair and she loved art. She wanted to commune with painting. She even willingly posed for bold nudes and believed that she would be successful in a male-dominated world. Victorine Meurent was born in Paris in 1844. At the age
She was a full-blooded German, a deeply religious person, apparently she hated falsehood and hypocrisy. After the war, for reasons only known to her, she became an intelligence agent. However, she did not spy for any of the new German states. Unlike her famous colleagues, she never got worked out, m
She was not a ruthless poisoner. She did not plunder the Polish state and did not take other peoples treasures to Italy. And most of all - she was not a fat, hideous bastard at all. Contrary to what almost every portrait of her would suggest. There is no escape from the stereotypical image of Bo
In 1929, the inhabitants of Düsseldorf were horrified. Murders began to take place in the city, the brutality of which shocked everyone. The victims were of different ages and sexes, and the traces leading to the discovery of the perpetrator were like medicine. Additionally, local newspapers began r
In pre-Christian Scandinavia, Nordic mythology refers to the religion, beliefs and stories of the people who settled in Iceland, where the majority of written sources for Norse mythology originated. The Norse gods are mythological characters from the traditions of the North Germanic tribes from the
Winning a war usually means a lot of loot for the winners. It was no different when the Allies defeated the Axis powers in 1945. Almost immediately, they began to distribute the territories and resources of the losing countries. For the Americans, however, the greatest war gain turned out to be ...
The Myth or Allegory of the Cave is a metaphor used by Plato to explain the hierarchy of knowledge and the government of the sages. Myth of the Cave or Allegory of the Cave is a metaphor elaborated by Plato and contained in his work The Republic . The Republic is a political work of Plato who tal