In the year 886 an emperor rose to the Byzantine throne who would go down in history with the name of Leōn VI ho Sophos , i.e. Leo the Wise (or the Philosopher ), because of his vast culture. Second of the Macedonian dynasty, it was not entirely clear whether his father was Basil I, as the official
Drinkers at a counter. Illustration for La Case de lOncle Tome • ISTOCK If criticism of British gastronomy has become an international sport, no one dares to doubt their taste for good drink. The Englishman Saint Boniface already condemned in the VIIIth Faced with the hundreds of millions of ca
Matvey Kuzmin , which everyone called «Biriuk (Lone Wolf), was an 83-year-old man who lived in a wooden cabin in the woods surrounding his hometown, Kurakino (Russia). In 1942, away from the madding crowd and in the midst of the Nazi offensive on Russia, his only concerns were hunting, fishing, coll
In 1842 a Russian manuscript titled Povest’o Drakule was found in Saint Petersburg. , work of Fyodor Kuritsyn, who was the ambassador of Ivan III the Great, Grand Prince of Moscow, to Mathias Corvin from 1482 to 1485. Twenty-two manuscript copies of this text were made up to the XVIIIe century. Whil