They say that marriages are made in heaven! But does this apply to crowned brides and grooms who met only on the eve of the wedding? They, sovereigns and rulers of large and small countries, were awaited by popular love and worship. But they had no right to their own love... They had to acquire secret and official favorites, appearing with their “other half” only at official receptions. But sometimes the married royal persons fell in love with each other, and then their union became a poetic legend, a happy fairy tale Queen of France Anna Yaroslavna and her husband Henry I, Maria Temryukovna and Ivan the Terrible. Catherine II and Peter III - historical short stories by Elena Arsenyeva tell about these and other stories of love and hate...