
May in history, according to an eternal pessimist.
1st May 1786
Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro premiered in Vienna. It was a real celebration for music lovers, but a problem for political censors and defenders of morality. Nothing to worry about though, with Salieri in the audience…
2nd May 1729
A baby girl was born in Szczecin (Stettin) to a noble family. Her parents named her Sophie Friederike Auguste, but they will call her Fike. Although she was a princess, her life was no fairy tale. Her mother would have preferred a son, the family wasn’t very rich and Fike’s days were filled with boredom. Fortunately, there were some good fairies around – namely, influential relatives. They arranged for Fike to marry Peter, the future Tsar of Russia. She herself would become known as Empress