Dvortsovye tayny. Tsaritsy i tsarevny XVII veka

V knige vossozdana shirokaya panorama vazhneyshikh istoricheskikh sobytiy v Rossii, pokazana zhizn tsarits i tsareven XVII veka. Vpervye predstavlen yarkiy i emkiy obraz zheny Borisa Godunova Marii Skuratovoy-Belskoy, stavshey pravitelnitsey posle smerti muzha, neschastnoy polutsaritsy Marii Buynosovoy, mnogo sdelavshey dlya uvekovecheniya pamyati nepopulyarnogo tsarya Vasiliya Shuyskogo, Evdokii Streshnevoy, obespechivshey preemstvennost tsarskoy dinastii, i drugikh. Est v knige i portrety bolee izvestnykh geroin: vospetoy v narodnykh pesnyakh tsarevny Ksenii, Mariny Mnishek - zheny dvukh samozvantsev, umnoy i energichnoy tsarevny Sofi. Pri etom raskryty kak slozhnye peripetii zhizni kazhdoy iz geroin, tak i ikh vnutrenniy mir, kharakter, vzaimootnosheniya s detmi, muzhem, rodstvennikami.