“All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” noted L. N. Tolstoy in “Anna Karenina.” This book presents essays about one hundred great married couples from different times and peoples. These are two hundred great lives! Love and married life inspired some to create masterpieces of literature, music and cinema, make scientific discoveries, and forced them to make decisions that influenced the development of states. For some, marriage ultimately brought disappointment and unhappiness. But they all left a mark on the history of mankind and with their lives once again proved that love turns the world upside down and creates miracles, and strong families remain one of the foundations for any society. Readers will see the lives of Ivan III and Sophia Paleologue, Suleiman I and Roxolana, Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine Beauharnais, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, Alexander Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova, Pierre Curie and Maria Sklodovskaya, Nicholas Roerich and Elena Shaposhnikova, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh , John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier... Different countries and eras, different destinies, different assessments of contemporaries and descendants...