Безобразная герцогиня Маргарита Маульташ

XIV vek, ėpokha pozdnego Srednevekovʹi͡a. Eshche bushuet Stoletni͡ai͡a voĭna mezhdu Anglieĭ i Frant͡sieĭ, nabiraet silu Burgundii͡a, daby vskorosti dostichʹ svoego maksimalʹnogo rast͡sveta, aktivno rastut goroda i razvivaetsi͡a torgovli͡a i promyshlennostʹ Germanii… V alʹpiĭskikh gorakh prii͡utilasʹ kroshechnai͡a strana so zvuchnym nazvaniem Tirolʹ, territorii͡u kotoroĭ khoti͡at zapoluchitʹ v svoi vladenii͡a silʹnye i mogushchestvennye sosedi - Gabsburgi i Vittelʹsbakhi… A v ėto vremi͡a u Genrikha Khorutanskogo, koroli͡a Chekhii, gert͡soga Karintii i grafa Tiroli͡a, podrastaet naslednit͡sa, dochʹ Margarita. Veroi͡atno, ee um i diplomaticheskie uspekhi dolzhny byli sniskatʹ eĭ slavu mudroĭ pravitelʹnit͡sy, no sudʹba ugotovila inui͡u uchastʹ: ona voshla v istorii͡u kak… samai͡a nekrasivai͡a zhenshchina vsekh vremen. Tak, so stranit͡s knigi "Bezobraznai͡a gert͡sogini͡a Margarita Maulʹtash", avtorom kotoroĭ i͡avli͡aetsi͡a master istoricheskogo romana Lion Feĭkhtvanger, na chitateleĭ smotrit udivitelʹno neprivlekatelʹnai͡a zhenshchina: "Na korenastom tele s korotkimi konechnosti͡ami sidela bolʹshai͡a urodlivai͡a golova. Pravda, lob byl i͡asnyĭ, chistyĭ, i glaza - umnye, zhivye, ispytui͡ushchie, pronit͡satelʹnye...Roman nasyshchen mnozhestvom tragicheskikh sobytiĭ iz zhizni gert͡sogini: razvod s neli͡ubimym muzhem Iogannom Genrikhom, za kotorogo ona byla vydana zamuzh v dvenadt͡satiletnem vozraste, a potom so skandalom izgnala ego iz Tiroli͡a, otluchenie ot t͡serkvi, ėpidemii͡a chumy, unesshai͡a zhizni bolʹsheĭ chasti naselenii͡a, evreĭskie pogromy, obvinenii͡a poddannykh, smertʹ dvoikh deteĭ, predatelʹstvo syna, intrigi i politicheskai͡a borʹba, poteri͡a vladeniĭ...

XIV century, the late middle Ages. Still raging hundred years war between England and France, gaining strength Burgundy in order soon to reach its maximum height, rapidly growing cities and developing trade and industry in Germany... In the Alpine mountains, is nestled the tiny country with the sonorous name of the Tyrol, the area where you want to have in their possession a strong and powerful neighbors, the Habsburgs and the Wittelsbachs... But this time Henry Korotenkova, king of Bohemia, Duke of Carinthia and count of Tyrol, a teenage heiress, the daughter of Margaret. Probably, her mind and diplomatic successes was to win her fame wise ruler, but fate has prepared another fate: she went down in history as... the most ugly woman of all time. So, from the pages of the book "the Ugly Duchess Margarita Multas", whose author is the master of the historical novel of lion Feuchtwanger, readers looks surprisingly unattractive woman: "chunky body with short limbs sat a big, ugly head. However, the forehead was clear, clean, and eye — intelligent, lively, inquisitive, insightful...a novel filled with many tragic events in the life of a Duchess: a divorce an unloved husband, Johann Heinrich, whom she was married at the age of twelve, and then with the scandal drove him from the Tyrol, excommunication, the plague that killed most of the population, pogroms, accusations of his subjects, the death of two children, a son, betrayal, intrigue and political struggle, the loss of possessions...