Favority i favoritki gosudarei Zapadnoi Evropy - Voskresenskaia I.

There is one side of life, usually hidden from the eyes of people, but very significant both for the development of the state itself and for the welfare of the people. This lurking side of the life of the 'tops' - favorites and favorites at the throne, favorites and favorites of sovereigns and sovereigns, their influence on the sovereigns, their policies, methods of government and, therefore, on the history of the country. Before you, dear reader, a book, which presents materials about the most famous favorites, favorites and lovers, who from the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century lived and acted under the kings and queens of the most important European states at that time - France, England, Scotland, Denmark and Spain, where favoritism at the throne proved most vivid and had tragic consequences. In the proposed book there is no relishing of alcove royal stories, because the main purpose of the author was to find out what is the difference between favoritism in Western Europe and favoritism in Russia and how the impact of these phenomena on international relations of our chosen countries.