Princess Lyudmila Dmitrievna Shakhovskaya (1850–19...) - Russian writer, poet, playwright and translator; author of over three dozen books, several poetry collections; creator of the first Russian Rhyming Dictionary of the Russian Language. Most of Shakhovskaya's works are novels from the lives of the ancient Romans, Greeks, Gauls, and Carthaginians. In content, they represent a single whole - a continuous chain of events following each other. In fact, in these 23 novels, she presented the history of Ancient Rome in artistic form. The work of Lyudmila Shakhovskaya, unjustly forgotten in our time, is of undoubted interest for modern lovers of historical reading. This volume presents the novel “The Die is Cast,” which wonderfully illuminates the life of the Roman state in the era of one of its most significant figures, Gaius Julius Caesar. Against the background of Roman life during the decline of the republic, Caesar's conquest of Gaul and Britain, the morals and religious customs of Rome and the Gallic tribes inhabiting the territory of present-day France are interestingly shown. The dramatic destinies of the novel's heroes are fascinatingly intertwined with historical events.