The book presents biographies of national leaders of Central and Southeast Europe, who found themselves at the forefront of history in a turning point for the entire continent, the central event of which was the First World War. It was with her that the heroes of this work (the heads of independent states and the leaders of the peoples who were part of the opposing empires) pinned their hopes on the final solution of "their" national question, and in its integral form. Under military conditions, they fought to solve it, but with varying success, and as a result, they were someone ascended to heaven, and who was ostracized.