About the book: year / The history of any country is full of intrigue, pain, blood, love, passion, rage, great victories and crushing defeats. In this collection of stories about the life and love of bright and strong women: “Cinderellas” with a similar fate - Catherine I (the laundress who became the Empress), Roksolana (Hurrem Sultan, Slavic concubine, one of the most famous women of the Ottoman Empire, almost the founder of the “Women’s Sultanate"). And also the story of the most famous prince from the Rurik dynasty, Alexander Nevsky, whom the people called the Sun of the Fatherland. “The embers of burned-out fires are smoldering - Battles, love, blood, victories. It is impossible to return those centuries that burned in the merciless flame of years. Only in books about them, between the lines, do I catch even a spark of those fires. Balls, battles, holiness, vice... Lost in the depths of centuries».