350 years, from the XIII to the middle of the XVI century, the German (Teutonic) Order dominated the Baltic states. Three centuries passed in wars with Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Novgorod, Pskov. In the XVI century. the fateful time for German chivalry comes: in 1525, under the onslaught of Poland, the eldest, Prussian branch of the order fell. Instead of equal in strength to the Novgorod and Pskov republics, the new enemy of the younger, Livonian branch of the German Order is the mighty, united Russian state. The countdown of the last days of the state of the northern crusaders begins. The book tells about the fate of Livonia in the XIV-mid-XVI century, the history of its heyday and death in 1561-1562.