Great and famous. Stories from life

Stories from the life of famous people told and always recorded, starting from ancient times. Contemporaries and descendants were found and found in them what is not in the chronicles and chronicles and almost no in the piles of historians. In these fascinating, often comical, often very instructive plots of the Heroes of the past appear by alive people - witty, cuited, generous or, on the contrary, fussy-petty, etc. Sometimes these stories are forced to look at the historic figure with a fresh look, and it turns out that it turns out that it The greatness of just tinsel, which will fly away from a slight blow. And in other cases, traditional irony and skepticism in relation to a particular figure after acquaintance with some episodes of his life can suddenly be replaced by respect and even admiration.
In this edition, stories from the life of the Great and famous people learned from different sources were collected, among which "comparative lives" Plutarch, Maxima and Thoughts" Nicolas Shamfora," Genuine Jokes about Peter Great "Yakova Schlynina, Petra"s notebooks Vyazemsky and much more