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Cleopatra. Life of the legendary queen

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The last ruler of Egypt, the famous Queen Cleopatra is rightfully considered one of the most striking and controversial women in world history. Her image was recreated by William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and many of our contemporaries judge the appearance and character of the queen by her cinematic "double" - the brilliant Elizabeth Taylor. However, much information about the life of the queen has been lost or mythologized, and her personality has been lost in romanticized images. In her large-scale study, translated into 30 languages, Pulitzer Prize winner and master of the biographical genre Stacy Schiff has done a virtuoso job with a huge array of classical sources to reveal to the world the true Cleopatra: a strong ruler, an astute strategist and a skillful negotiator.

"Boldly, rudely, visibly, she appeared in world politics and influenced the course of history. She convinced the Egyptian people that the twilight was the dawn, and she did everything she could to hasten that dawn. In desperate times, she improvised wildly, then improvised again – that’s how some people define genius. There was brilliance and grandeur in her story long before Octavian and Shakespeare touched it… From her first appearance to her last, we are struck by her ability to plan a scene and arrange the scenery. To the very end, she was the director of her own life.” (Stacy Schiff)
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