With this book E. Sanin begins the historical cycle 'From the life of the emperors of Ancient Rome'. The main characters of the writer's novels and short stories are people who made history in the first centuries of our era, whose names alone terrified entire nations: Gaius Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Trajan... Episode by episode, pages little known to the modern reader will be revealed ancient history - the cradle of our civilization. The story 'The First Rubicon' tells about the youth of Julius Caesar - one of the most striking and tragic personalities in ancient history. The author shows him in those days when the life of the future dictator hung by a thread. This story, like the books of the entire series, is designed for a wide range of readers: lovers of the historical genre, detective stories, astrology, students, schoolchildren, as well as those who like to draw parallels between today and the past, while learning invaluable lessons suggested to us by ourselves History...