I really liked this book, even if it was a little bit hard to understand because it has a lot notable people from Central Europe that I really do not know. And is full of all the problems that monarchies use to have in the old times, specially the one from Russia, but this countries still had problems even if the monarchy didn´t exit anymore, because of the different kind of people that use to live there, and because of the URSS. A lot of them didn´t had freedom of religion, of believes and to use their own language.