The famous English writer-historian John Patrick Balfour, on the pages of his book, recreates the history of the Ottoman Empire from its foundation at the turn of the 13th–14th centuries. before its collapse in 1923. The authoritative orientalist known in the scholarly community as Lord Kinross traces the rise of a civilization of warlike nomads and the rapid rise of the Ottoman state to the greatest empire in world history, stretching from the Danube to the Nile and from Algeria to the Caspian, where the arts flourished, Sciences and crafts developed, philosophical thought did not fade away, and theology flourished. The author vividly and vividly talks about the daily life of the Ottoman Turks, creates accurate, believable portraits of the sultans, their wives and heirs, and allows you to look behind the patterned gates of the harem. The historian pays special attention to the confrontation between the Sublime Porte and the Habsburg Empire and Russia, which, along with the liberation movement in the Balkans and mistakes in domestic policy, caused the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the proclamation of the Turkish Republic.