Famous people

I want to tell you about  famous people who lived in different centuries.

Mozart, Peter 1, George Washington and other famous people lived in 17-18 centuries.

Peter the First was born on May 30, 1672 in Moscow. From one year he was brought up by nannies. 

From the age of 5 years, little Peter began to learn the alphabet. Peter I, or Peter the Great was one 

of the most outstanding rulers and reformers in Russian history. 

Peter continued the war with the Crimea, took the fortress of Azov. 

He created a very good fleet. He built the city of St. Petersburg. Peter the Great died 

on January 28, 1725.

Alexander Pushkin, Dmitry Mendeleev,Fedor Dostoevsky, Jules Verne lived in 19 century.

The great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was born on May 26 (June 6) in Moscow, 

in a German settlement. 

In June 1817 he wrote The Village, About Arakcheev. Ruslan and Lyudmila, which he graduated in March 1820. 

In 1832, while visiting Moscow, Pushkin began writing the novel Dubrovsky, which he left incomplete 

at the beginning of 1833. 

Pushkin’s last major work was the story “The Captain’s Daughter.” 

 In 1837, Pushkin challenged Dantes to a duel, which took place on January 27, 1837 on the Black River.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Sergey Korolev, Coco Chanel lived in 20  century.

Henry Ford was born in the village of Springfield in Michigan on July 30, 1863.

 Ford assembled the first internal combustion engine in the kitchen of his house. 

Ford Motor Company appeared in 1903. Its founders were twelve businessmen from the state of Michigan, 

led by Henry Ford. 

The first car of the company was sold on July 23, 1903. Ford introduced the Model T in October 1908, 

and over the next few years, 

the company achieved 100 percent profit.

 Easy to drive and cheap to repair, that's why half of all cars in America in 1918 were a Ford Model T. 

Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947.