Book 16 from the History of Poland series. Poland, 1382... After the death of Louis of Hungary, the struggle for the crown flares up. One of the contenders, Semko, Prince of Mazowiecki, wants to try his chances, since almost all of Poland is on his side, except for the capital... The Krakow people didn’t want him at all... they pinned all their hopes on the daughter of Ludwik of Hungary, Jadwiga; They were impatiently awaiting her arrival. Then the Lithuanian prince Jagiello appears on the horizon... The people of Krakow come up with the idea of making him king and uniting Poland with Lithuania. But the Teutonic Order does not benefit from such a strengthening of Poland; it sends its secret agents and spies there... The novel is being published in Russian for the first time.