People at all times have been attracted to burning secrets and mysterious stories, and our contemporaries, as we know, prefer detective stories and thrillers. This publication “Palace Revolutions” can satisfy not only history buffs, but also people who prefer the above-mentioned genres, since it tells about the most mysterious incidents from the past that influenced the course of history and the fate of entire peoples and states. Thus, the story of the murder of Emperor Paul I, which has everything: mysterious predictions, a conspiracy in his immediate circle and even in his family, and Paul’s unexpected refusal to resist, will arouse undoubted interest among the reader. The book will also tell about the most odious figure in the history of England - King Richard III, who probably became a victim of "black PR" that already existed in the Middle Ages. And also the mysterious East will not be ignored: the reader will learn a lot of interesting things from the history of the Celestial Empire, as the Chinese called their state.