Curated category
Collars of the Order of the White Lion
- Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin signed his articles "K. Stalin", an alias drawn from the Russian word for steel, translated as "Man of Steel." The man who chose it was born…
- Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza Pahlavi entered the world on the 26th of October 1919 in Tehran. He was born to Reza Khan, a Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade…
- Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a small village in the North Caucasus region of what is now Russia.
- François MitterrandFrançois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was born on the 26th of October 1916 in Jarnac, Charente. His family was devoutly Catholic and conservative.
- Yuri AndropovYuri Vladimirovich Andropov was born on the 15th of June 1914 in Stanitsa Nagutskaya, a town that now belongs to Stavropol Krai.
- Kim Il SungKim Song Ju arrived in the small village of Namni near Pyongyang on the 15th of April 1912. His family belonged to the Jeonju Kim clan, which had settled in…
- HirohitoHirohito was born on the 29th of April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo. He entered the world as Prince Michi during the reign of his grandfather…
- SukarnoKoesno Sosrodihardjo was born on the 6th of June 1901 in Surabaya, East Java. His father served as a primary school teacher while his mother came from a…
- Wojciech JaruzelskiIn June 1941, a young boy named Wojciech Jaruzelski stood on a railway platform in Poland. He watched his family stripped of their possessions before being…
- Alfonso XIIIThe Royal Palace of Madrid held a newborn on the 17th of May 1886. Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, the prime minister, received the infant king naked and placed upon…