Let's forget the dry dates and boredom of school history lessons! “In reality, everything is completely different from what it really is” (S. E. Lec). History is an exciting story, in the center of which there is always a Man - with his experience, nerves, conscience, mistakes, brilliant insights, agony, ecstasy and unexpected turns of Fate. Who was the dictator Julius Caesar - a brilliant politician who gave stability and peace to the empire, or a tyrant, gravedigger of Roman democracy? The reader learns the truth after spending the last night of his life with the great Caesar... How did it happen that Princess Olga, who coldly and fearfully dealt with the murderers of her husband, became the first Russian saint? What price did a man named Christopher Columbus have to pay for his discovery of an unknown land for ocean? Elegant, sparkling, combining tragedy and irony, the new book by Karina Cockrell captivates from the first to the last page with the psychological authenticity of the characters, a gripping plot, the erudition of the author and unexpected parallels with the present day.