Roksolana: Biography. Oleksandra Shutko

This book is dedicated to the biography of the most famous Ukrainian sultana, the founder of the “Women’s Sultanate” in the Ottoman Empire — Roksolana (Hürrem), who by the will of fate from a simple captive became first the beloved concubine, and later the only wife of the most powerful sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and the mother of his successor — Selim II. The publication contains nine of her love letters to Sultan Suleiman (one of them published in Ukrainian for the first time) and four — diplomatic ones, addressed to the Hungarian Queen Isabella Jagiellon, the Polish King Sigismund II Augustus and the Persian Princess Sultan Begum — the sister of Shah Taghmasp, as well as the replies sent to Roksolana by these monarchs.
At the end of the book, there is a story about honoring this great woman, her role in the history of Ukrainians and Turks, and how she inspired artists to create wonderful works.