Grigori Rasputin: A Life From Beginning to End

Rasputin began life as a peasant in the poorest reaches of Siberia and ended his life as the virtual second-in-command o

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English Year 2017

University Press returns with another short and captivating portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures, Grigor

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The ingenious artist we know as Michelangelo lived during the Renaissance in Northern Italy, and you could say that he w

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If anything, Karl Marx’s life reminds us of the power of the pen over the sword. During his lifetime, he lived in relati

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Just who was Saint Patrick? Many know him as the figure behind the huge festival of fun and drinking that takes place ev

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When Fidel Castro died on November 25, 2016, it seemed as if much of the world didn’t quite know what to make of the rev

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Creativity is in our bones. It is found in our very DNA, something not known to Leonardo da Vinci or anyone else who liv

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incent van Gogh is one of the world’s most famous artists, and his paintings are among the world’s most valuable. The ar

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Marilyn Monroe She vigorously played the dumb-blonde stereotype in her movie roles, but there is nothing at all dumb abo

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The political theories of Lenin have long outlived him, and have even gone on to outlive the Marxist state he help to fo

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