Empress Elizaveta Petrovna dies. She is succeeded by the hated Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich, an admirer of Frederick II and Prussia. His defiant behavior, hatred of everything Russian, and denial of Orthodoxy prove to those around him that the new reign will not be long. Such a monarch will soon be overthrown. Who will wear the crown then? His little son Pavel? The imprisoned prisoner Ivan Antonovich, overthrown from the throne at the age of one? Or the unknown children of Elizaveta Petrovna from her favorite and secret husband Alexei Razumovsky? The wife of Peter III, Catherine, has the least rights. But she believes in her star... “Heirs of the Giant” is the second novel in the series dedicated to the early life of Catherine the Great.