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Queen Victoria was on the throne of Great Britain 63 years and seven months until her death in 1901. She became queen at the age of 18 after her father and his three elder brothers had all died. Queen Victoria became very popular with the people of her country. She was admired and respected and was a very wise ruler. The years when she was a queen are known as the Victorian era.

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Queen Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert, in 1840. She loved her husband very much. They had nine children and 34 grandchildren. Many of them married into important families across the continent. That’s why she got the name “the grandmother of Europe”. After Albert’s death in 1861 she was very unhappy and lonely.

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Queen Victoria was born on the 24th of May 1819. Her name is Alexandrina Victoria (Alexandrina after Emperor Alexander I of Russia and Victoria after the girl’s mother). Victoria’s early years were rather sad. She didn’t play with other children and met very few people. Victoria had regular classes with a teacher in the palace, spent her play hours with her dolls and her favourite dog, spaniel Dash. Her lessons included French, German, Italian and Latin but she spoke only English at home.

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On the 24th of May 1837 Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom. In her diary she wrote about that day: “I got up at 6 o’clock because Mamma told me that some important people were here and wanted to see me. I went into my sitting room alone and was told that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, he had died at 12 minutes past 2 this morning and that I am a Queen.” Official documents prepared on the first day described her as Alexandrina Victoria but she asked not to use the first name again.

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At the end of the 19th century Victoria visited Europe regularly for holidays. In 1889 she visited Spain. But her health was not good enough. She felt pains in her legs and she couldn’t see well. In 1900 she often felt weak and unwell. She died on Tuesday 22 January 1901 at half pat six in the evening, at the age of 81. Her son King Edward VII and her eldest grandson were at her deathbed.

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John Constable, a world-famous English painter, is considered to be one of the leading figures in English painting of the 19th century. He became interested in painting at a very early age but he didn’t devote himself to art until he was 23, when he went to London to study. His famous picture “The Hay Wain” is in the National Gallery.

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Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Spain. His parents built him his first studio in the south of the country. Many of his paintings show his love for this part of Spain where he spent many years with his wife Gala. Dali became internationally known in 1925 when three of his pictures, “The Basket of Bread” among them, were shown in Pittsburgh, the USA.

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Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romantism. Everybody in Russia knows his Alexander Pushkin’s portrait that was finished in 1827. Orest spent some time abroad where he studied art. He came back to Russia and lived in Moscow, Tver and Saint Petersburg. He spent his last years in Italy where he died in 1836.

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Leonardo da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all times but he was also a scientist, a musician, an architect, an engineer and a writer. Some of his paintings including “Madonna Benois” and “Madonna Litta” are in the Hermitage collection in St Petersburg.

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Edward Munch was born in 1863 and died in 1944. He is a Norwegian painter and graphic artist. He studied in Oslo, in Paris and travelled a lot in Europe. Among Munch’s strongest and best-known works are “The Scream” and “The Kiss”. Practically all his paintings are in Norwegian collections.

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