Historian and radio host Natalia Basovskaya talks about the fate of men who changed the world. Warriors, prophets, thinkers loved and died, suffered and rejoiced as the most ordinary people. Why did contemporaries hate Tutankhamun? Was Nero as depraved as we think of him? What sins did Richard Lionheart try to pray for? What was Thomas More's biggest setback? Who was the famous Cardinal Richelieu afraid of? And what's the secret to Benjamin Franklin's success? You will find all the answers in this book.