Elena Ioannovna lived a short but bright, eventful life. At the age of 21, she married the Lithuanian prince Alexander, who a few years later was elected ruler of the Polish kingdom. Thanks to her intelligence and tact, Elena enjoyed universal respect and actively helped her husband in state affairs.

But after the tragic death of Alexander, the position of the Grand Duchess and Queen became sharply complicated: both the Lithuanian-Polish lords and the Catholic Church began to offend her , and the new king Sigismund...

The new novel by the modern writer-historian A. Antonov tells about the life and fate of the daughter of the “Sovereign of All Rus'” John III, Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Poland, Helena (1474–1513 ).