Hello this was something a friend and I did as a different way of remembering individuals in the French and Russian Revolutions (those are the two our school did). Feel free to add your own quips for other figures for both the revolutions or which ever ones you are studying 🙂
Lenin - The guy with the forehead
Trotsky - The guy with the train
Nicholas - The incompetent fool
Kerensky - The guy who was there
Alexander III - The bread roll guy
Stolypin - The guy with the necktie
Rasputin - The guy with the eyes
Alexandra - The ma'am with no damn plan
Marx - The dude who wrote a manifesto
Kornilov - The gun guy
Kollontai - The first fancy government lady
Dzerzhinsky - The 'no evidence needed' Cheka man
Louis XVI (16) - the clown
Louis XV (15) - the dead one
Louis XIV (14) - the Sun king
Antoinette - the hair was a boat lady
Necker - the compte rendude
Lafayette - the American Frenchman
Sieyes - the poor mans' advocate
Robespierre - the terror deity guy
Danton - the gremlin man
Marat - the 'my man' man (we loved Marat)
Corday - the stabby stabby lady
Brissot - the yummy war guy