Famous, public people often pass into another world, leaving their descendants with many unsolved mysteries. Most of the secrets are associated with the death of state and political figures, including Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Emperor Napoleon, President Kennedy, Soviet leaders led by Lenin and Stalin, the fascist Fuhrer Hitler and his closest accomplices. But the death of artists also left many mysteries for descendants: the composer Tchaikovsky, the poets Yesenin and Mayakovsky, the movie star Marilyn Monroe, the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley. The fates of these and many other bright historical characters, little-known facts, unexpected hypotheses, shocking details of personal lives and mysterious circumstances of the death of great people are presented to the inquisitive reader.