Tiber dark waters. Popov M.

The first century before the Nativity of Christ. The Roman Republic is rapidly expanding its boundaries, the appetites of the patricians are growing, and with them - ambitiousness, greed and permissiveness. Due to the arbitrariness of Rome, the first civil war flashes, in which yesterday's allies began to exterminate each other with incredible cruelty. In this war, the young praetor Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who received a reward, was distinguished by the position of consul. But only two years later, during the war with Mithridates, he was declared a traitor, and his supporters in the Senate were destroyed.

However, Sulla returned to Italy with a huge army and became the sovereign owner of Rome by the dictator... < /p>

the novel of the recognized master of the historical and adventure genre, laureate of the National Literary Prize named after V.G. Rasputin.