Roxolana. The Complete Story of the Magnificent Century

Before you is one of the best, repeatedly adapted novels of the 20th century about the rise of the Ottoman Empire, about a terrifying and magnificent century. The empire reached its highest peak during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent... in the 16th - 17th centuries. The main love and the main trouble of the sultan was a Ukrainian girl, Roxolana, sold into slavery at the Istanbul market.
Thanks to her beauty, brilliant intellect, and extraordinary willpower, she managed to become the official wife of the great sultan and leave her mark in History.
The book tells about the most dramatic, bright, and interesting years of the harem's life, about a woman whom many historians portray as a powerful, cruel, and treacherous seductress!