Here is a collection of the most unexpected and exciting stories about the tyrants and villains of the famous historian Natalia Basovskaya. City arsonists, founders of medieval orders, vain actors, merciless conquistadors and hypocritical revolutionaries are the main characters of this book. Some of them really lived a life full of cunning and cruelty, others were slandered by word of mouth. Why did contemporaries dislike the apostate Egyptian pharaoh, whose wife was the beautiful Nefertiti? What was the famous Roman to whom the dying Julius Caesar said, "And you, Brutus"? How did the ruler of Wallachia turn into the mythological Count Dracula? Who was to blame for the fall of Constantinople? This book will answer these and many other questions, and will guide you through the most terrible backstreets of world history!