About the book: year / The action of the novel begins in 1525, unfolding throughout the 16th century until the beginning of the Great Troubles in the territory of two neighboring Sweden and Russia. A grandiose era in the history of the entire region is the confrontation between two dynasties - the Rurikids and the Vases, whose family was cursed for crimes committed by Vasily III and Gustav I. The Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily III lived in a childless marriage with Solomonia Saburova for twenty years, forcibly imprisoned her in a monastery and married young Elena Glinskaya. It has not yet been proven who the real father of Ivan IV the Terrible was. Gustav Vasa, by a whim of fate, became the king of Sweden, married the real German princess Katharina, and in a fit of anger killed her, leaving little Eric an orphan. The king's remarriage brought him 10 children, with three brothers taking turns on the throne. But they were all at enmity with each other. After a generation, the Vaza family dried up. Border conflicts and wars, the victorious march of Lutheranism in northern Europe and the reform of the Orthodox Church in Russia, and against this background the fate of both the ruling families and ordinary people involved in this cycle of events. This file is an amateur compilation of 1-5 books (1-4 volumes) from free sources