The life and death of the famous Egyptian queen has inspired artists, poets and writers for two millennia, and the famous historical material receives more and more new interpretations. Unlike the texts already known to the Russian reader and representing the chapters of the book "The Decline of the Ptolemies" by the popular Polish writer-historian Alexander Kravchuk, the last two parts are two new novels written by the young historian Boris Derevensky. His rigorously documented subjects are unparalleled in the extensive literature on Cleopatra.