The book is devoted to the struggle for power in the Turkic-Mongol states, starting with the empire of Genghis Khan in the first half of the XIII century. and ending with the last attempts to create independent khanates in Central Asia already in the XX century. The circumstances of the struggle for power in Mongolia and Central are investigated. Asia, Iran, the Golden Horde and the states that arose after its collapse. The author concludes that at different times and in different countries, applicants for the throne, who had not too legal rights to it, often used similar justifications for their claims and actions against competitors.