Cat before a fall: the craziest cat owner in history

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As of 2013 15% of all Internet traffic was in one way or another connected with cats. Yes, we love to see how mad these little lumps of fur. The obsession with cats haunts mankind for centuries: the animals live in a hut, and a poor man in France Imperial Palace. Here are some of the most famous in the history of the world kotolyubov, each of which would have given his right arm for a beautiful pussy.

Catherine the Great

Russian Empress not only loved cats, she worshiped. In the reign of Catherine the Great an entire wing of the Winter Palace was farmed out to these animals. Breed "Russian Blue" Catherine brought his own, and the British royal family did not know where to go from monthly kotopodarkov.

Florence Nightingale

As a true British lady, Florence Nightingale loved cats. In her home at the same time there were approximately 60 animals, which were prepared for the special kitchen. Florence felt his dumb friends much better companions than most people.

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln was so absorbed in her cats, it offended his wife, Mary Todd. At the White House, the US president is required to take to dinner one of her kittens and fed it directly on the table with golden fork, not paying the slightest attention of others.

Charles Baudelaire

Odious French poet Charles Baudelaire loved cats gave immortality: several poems from the book "Flowers of Evil" are devoted to these animals. Acquaintances often bantered habit Baudelaire roam the dark alleys in search of stray cats. Addled opium and absinthe poet, wandering on the outskirts of Paris, with a jar of canned food and really looked pretty funny.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain is often presented as one of the craziest kotovladeltsev in history. In the house the writer lived 19 cats - Twain persuaded his friends that they are much better people. Literary career forced the writer to travel a lot, and most of the fees he went down for the payment of the content of their seals.

Isaac Newton

The coat of arms of Isaac Newton could well be to portray a cat in a box of apples. Descendants will be eternally grateful for the great physicist wonderful invention: mortise door for cats.

Picasso

What could be more romantic than an abstract painting by Picasso, inspired by the sultry love affairs? Is that his obsession with cats. At the peak of his talent, the artist created some brilliant paintings devoted to his furry friends. Painting "Dora Maar au Chat" it is now regarded as one of the most expensive works of art in the world.

, Marie Antoinette

All women have a weakness in the cats, but the French queen was just obsessed with them. At the court of Marie Antoinette at Versailles roamed many animals that visitors marveled at the amount of impurities, which could not keep up to handle a whole army of servants. Before guillotined queen wished to give their cats a lifetime pension, which was done.