In 1867, Europe was on the verge of great changes. A year earlier, Prussia, having won a decisive victory over the Austrian Empire, powerfully entered the arena of big politics, beginning to gather around itself the previously scattered German states. Everyone understands that Prussia will not stop there. Who will be the next victim of her growing appetites? The duel of wills and insidious intrigues, the glitter of diplomatic salons and the gunpowder smoke of battles, the glory and fate of world history come to life under the pen of the “German Dumas” - Gregor Samarov. On the pages of his large-scale epic, which, following the novel “For the Scepter and the Crown,” includes this book, the reader is presented with a wide panorama of Europe against the backdrop of the era of “iron and blood.”