Her reign earned the glory of the “Golden Age”. She is hailed as Europe's greatest queen. She turned Britain into the Lady of the Seas. The life of Elizabeth...

Vladimir the Holy, Vladimir the Red Sun... His whole life is a tangle of contradictions. He was the child of a housekeeper slave, and became the Grand Duke o...

The first winter of the siege of Leningrad was the most terrible. The ring closed already on September 8, and the city was not ready for it. There was no hea...

She ran away with Odysseus from her native Sparta, marrying despite her father’s prohibition, and paid for the short female happiness with twenty years of se...

PRETHICY OLEG. A legendary prince, a mystery prince, in whose life there were enough secrets for ten... A cunning and cruel Varangian, he came to Rus' as a m...

Marguerite de Valois did not sit on the throne for a single day, and only allowed her brother to call herself “Margot.” Contrary to the legends, she was not ...

She was hailed as the “Messalina of the North” and “the libertine on the throne.” There are legends about her “voluptuousness” and “gluttony.” Historians sti...

Such love happens once in a century. Legends are made about such lovers, they are envied and worshiped by millions, they say about them: “You never dreamed o...

Suleiman the Magnificent loved Roksolana more than life itself, and the death of his adored wife became a terrible blow for him, the main tragedy in his life...