Ludwig II of Bavaria is a tragic, majestic, slandered figure... Why did he build incomprehensibly beautiful castles, spending colossal amounts of money on it? Because he was crazy? The author of this book proves, based on materials from a personal historical investigation, that the conclusion about mental inferiority was only a pathetic slander against the crowned monarch, based on false reports from servants. Ludwig II, gifted with the talent of an architect since childhood, comprehended the order's legends about the Holy Grail, a spiritual associate of Richard Wagner, created with his castles Heavenly Bavaria - the earthly embodiment of the hidden mysteries bequeathed to him by the ascetics of the past. And the very circumstances of the brutal death of the “swan knight,” as Ludwig II called himself, falsified by his contemporaries and buried in closed archives, appear on the pages of this book completely different from what is commonly believed.