About the book: 2021 / Here is a collection of the most unexpected and exciting stories about tyrants and villains by the famous historian Natalia Basovskaya. Arsonists of cities, founders of medieval orders, vain actors, merciless conquistadors and hypocritical revolutionaries are the main characters of this book. Some of them really lived a life full of deceit and cruelty, others were slandered by rumor. Why did contemporaries dislike the Egyptian apostate pharaoh, whose wife was the beautiful Nefertiti? Who was the famous Roman to whom the dying Julius Caesar said: “And you, Brutus”? How did the ruler of Wallachia turn into the mythological Count Dracula? Who was responsible for the fall of Constantinople? This book will answer these and many other questions and guide you through the most terrible corners of world history.!