Anton Chekhov was a medical doctor and a writer of plays. One of his first plays was the Seagull available here on Gutenberg, about the artistic clashes and melancholy ala Shakespeare’s Hamlet (which is slyly alluded to), that Sir Tom Stoppard wrote “You can’t have too many English Seagulls: for , the Russian one will be forever elusive.”. The other three great plays he wrote were The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya. Chekhov, the Early Years He was born on January 29 1860 in the small seaport town of Taganrog, Rostov, Russia. His father was a former…
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Mikhail Skobeleff was born in Saint Petersburg on 29 September 1843 (Michaelmas) to philanthropist Olga Skobeleva, and Russian general Dmitry Ivanovich Skobelev. Like his father, he graduated from the General Staff Academy, seems to be equivalent to the American West Point, as a staff officer, and was immediately sent to Turkestan, Central Asia, in 1868 where he remained until 1877. A modern Tamerlane? His nickname in the British Press was “Bloody Eyes” but among his own men he was called, The Great White Lord. British Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon of Kedelston, in his travelogue, “Tales of Travel, Russia in Central…
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov, Queen Victoria of England, Emperor Nicholas, Bolshevists, Capricorn 21, Cancer 29 Aries 24 Gemini 07 Part of Self-Undoing Part of Fortune Part of Treachery Part of Tragedy, Chiron Sagittarius 23 Gemini 13 Star Nunki Pelagus
