I enjoy the most influential people in the world

Wisdom says that everything ever created by one person, while others turn to the collection. People standing at the very top of government, in this sense, is no exception. Ivan the Terrible, for example, seriously fascinated by astrology. Peter I can rightly be considered the first real numismatist in Russia. Great, Napoleon was keen on collecting watches ...

List of figures from the distant historical past goes on and on. Russian autocrat Peter III I liked to drink vodka and play with toy soldiers. For his studies he took very seriously. When one night a rat bitten two toy men who were made of starch, the emperor issued an order - to catch a criminal and executed. Rat was hanged ... Another emperor, Nicholas I enthusiastically engaged in design the uniforms of the Russian army. The governor is not worse than the professional tailors versed in the intricacies of wearing every vypushek and petlichek. And over the plates with drawings of uniforms could plod round the clock ... Chancellor Bismarck enthusiastically collecting thermometers, the last Russian tsar Nicholas II   - Violin, which from time to time and he played pretty well ...

Psychologists say that it is often a hobby able to say about the character and inclinations of man much more than a basic activity or working position. For example, a "fixation" on one thing indicates insecure nature, easily amenable to others' influence. At the same Nicholas II he had a devil - he could not bear, when his "toys" touched outsiders. From his collection was once stolen instrument, beautiful and very valuable Stradivarius that the emperor liked. It was immediately organized an investigation found a rarity. But Nikolai it never never touched.

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