Centuries-old history of humanity keeps the great number of riddles. This book will help a reader to open slightly a curtain above the secrets of historical events and phenomena of different epochs - from most ancient to our days, will tell about the fates of many legendary personalities of the past : tsarina Савской and king Макбета, Жанны of дАрк and Alexander I, Catherine Медичи and Napoleon, Ivan Грозного and Shakespeare.Here you will find update interesting versions about death Atlantida and the World flood, ghostly gold of Эльдорадо and secret of the Turin shroud of Christ, twins of Anastasiya and Stalin, wicked force of Распутина and Катынской tragedy, sons of Hitler and circumstances of death of "Kursk", authentic events of September, 11, 2001 and about other great deal.Inverting the last page of book, you once again will make sure in the rightness of words of the English historian and politician of the XIX century Thomas Маклея : "Who is well well-informed about the past, will never begin to despair concerning a present".