Historic Hotties ~ an eccentric little collection

French Composer of such works as Thais which featured Meditation Russian playwright, author of the Orchard, Three Sisters, and the Sea Gull
Lord Castlereagh Jules Massenet Fidel Castro Anton Chekhov Winston Churchill
Yes, Fulton's folly. Inventor of the modern steam boat
F. Dostoyevsky Stephen Fulton N. Hawthorne Leon Trotsky James Joyce
I sure hope this is Melville...but anyhow, he is very good looking, dark and brooding, yes?? Spanish romantic poet

Don't ask, I have a thing for earnest...dark-haired men

 Irish resistence leader / revolutionary-ballad writer
Lord Byron Herman Melville Gustavo Becquer A Noble in Naples Henry Joy
The popular one in the Troika, finally ousted by Stalin Oscar Wilde's infamous seducer One of the youngest Russian generals to have fought in the 1812 Campaign Soviet novelist of the Making of a Hero A Russian general in the 1812 Campaign
Nicholai Bukharin Lord Alfred Douglas Alexander Tuchkov Austolovesky Osterman-Tolstoy
Genius behind Napoleon's Waterloo defeat. Later PM, was born the same year as Castlereagh!
Ernest Hemingway Duke Wellington Frederick Chopin Napoleon Bonarparte Baron Richthofen
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