Roxolana. The Complete History 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 the terrible and magnificent century. The empire reached its peak during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th-17th centuries. The main love and the main grief of the sultan was a Ukrainian girl Roxolana, sold into slavery at the Istanbul market.
Thanks to her beauty, brilliant mind, and extraordinary willpower, she managed to become the official wife of the great sultan and leave her own mark in History.
The book tells about the most dramatic, vibrant, and interesting years of the harem's life, about a woman whom many historians depict as a powerful, cruel, and treacherous seductress!