Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 1525 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work is considered as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.
Anastasia Bitsenko
Anastasia Bitsenko was born on 10 November 1875 in a small village in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire. After she married she became engaged in revolutionary activities against the Tsarist monarchy early on. In 1902 she joined the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries and participated in various assignments. In 1905 she assassinated the Russian Minister of War Viktor Sakharov, "the butcher of Saratov". Bitsenko was captured, trialed and initially sentenced to death; but her punishment was later reduced to exilement to the Nerchinsk penal colony. There she met five other women with a similar history, among them fellow revolutionary Maria Spiridonova. The infamous feats of these women received some significant fame in the populace and they became collectively known as the "Shesterka" ("The Six").