The book includes historical novels by Pyotr Polezhaev “The Throne and the Monastery”, “The Lopukhin Affair” and Evgeniy Karnovich “On the Height and on the Valley”. The novels “The Throne and the Monastery” and “On the Height and on the Valley” tell about the struggle for the throne princess Sofia Alekseevna after the death of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich. The Streltsy riots and the fates of famous historical figures are shown - Princess Sofia Alekseevna, young Peter and others. The novel “The Lopukhin Affair” tells about a well-known historical fact: a conspiracy of a group of courtiers led by physician Lestocq, supported by the French envoy at the court of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, against Russian Vice-Chancellor Alexander Petrovich Bestuzhev with the aim of overthrowing him and changing the direction of Russian foreign policy.