All empires that have ever existed on earth have one extremely important feature in common - they attracted the best representatives of those nationalities who lived on their territories to serve their interests. We know many examples when the sons of the smallest nations became not only major officials, military leaders, architects, but also ascended to the heights of state power. The book by Serbian writer Vladislav Bajac tells about one of the most dramatic and interesting pages in the history of Ottoman Turkey: the reign of Sultan Suleiman The Magnificent, whose closest associate was the vizier Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, a Serb by nationality, who remained in the memory of posterity as a great reformer, builder of the fleet and patron of art.