Without the right to the throne. How five great dynasties flourished and died. Belova I.A.

Patterns, causal relationships, plans or accidents, luck, black swans: what rules the history of states and each of us? Can the choice of one ruler determine the future of generations? Or is it an illusion? In his book “Without the right to the throne,” the scriptwriter and historian Irina Belova-Flier will plunge us into the history of five great European dynasties, whose fate is connected by invisible threads much stronger than we remember from the school course. Ivan the Terrible, Elizabeth I, Maria Stuart, Philip II, Ekaterina Medici, Francis II Valois - they are all contemporaries who left a bright mark in history, but with mystical way did not leave descendants. None of the heroes of this book managed to leave behind the heirs who could truly continue the family for hundreds and hundreds of years. Why did the dynasties go into oblivion one after another almost immediately after the zenith of glory? Why did they not have the future? Or was there a chance and missed him?

peering together with the author in the interweaving of fate, into the parallel lives of the rulers of the brightest era in history, in their hopes and how they chose and were mistaken, we can recreate the past as a voluminous reality and, possibly, solve the secret the choice, the secret of the fate of the rulers and the secret of the fate of each person.