Category: BIOGRAPHY
From a Swiss farm to a palace in Constantinople: the extraordinary life of Elisabeth Tschumi.
From a Swiss farm to a palace in Constantinople Author: Rinaldo Tomaselli The extraordinary life of Elisabeth Tschumi who was born and brought up in a Swiss peasant family and then […]
Frederick Bruce Thomas: an extraordinary character’s tribulations
Author: Rinaldo Tomaselli Frederick Thomas was an African-American from Mississippi who made a fortune in Tsarist Russia and Constantinople. He was known as the Black Russian or Jazz Sultan.
Joan of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany & Queen of England
The life of a great, little known queen Joan of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany and Queen of England (from 1386 to 1437)