People have always been attracted to burning secrets and enigmatic stories, and our contemporaries are known to prefer detectives and thrillers. Our publication "Mysteries of history. Palace Coups "can satisfy not only lovers of history, but also people who prefer the above genres, as it tells the most mysterious events of the past, which influenced the course of history and the fate of entire nations and states. Thus, the reader will undoubtedly be interested in the story of the assassination of Emperor Paul I, which has everything: and mysterious predictions, and a conspiracy in his immediate environment and even his family, and Paul's unexpected refusal to resist. Our book will also tell about the most odious figure in the history of England - King Richard III, who probably fell victim to the "black PR" that existed in the Middle Ages. And also do not ignore the mysterious East: the reader will learn a lot of interesting things from the history of the Celestial Empire, as the Chinese called their state.