Children’s Fiction

Oleksandra Shutko
For teenagers The story of Roksolana for teenagers
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Oleksandra Shutko
Following Roksolana (In the
footsteps of Roksolana)
The story of the Ukrainian Roksolana is impressive.
After all, she went through a difficult life path —
from a captive of the Crimean Khan to the wife of
Sultan Suleiman and the mother of his successor,
Selim the Second. Therefore, she received the name
Gyurrem in Istanbul. During her lifetime, this woman
corresponded with the rulers of Europe and Asia,
had a great influence on politics and was actively
involved in charity. The book talks about her life
path, her place in history and her large family.
Oleksandra Shutko is a writer, art critic,
and researcher of the Ottoman
Empire’s history.
She is the author of many books
about Ukrainian women-sultans -
fiction and non-fiction.
The writer has many publications on
the history of the Ottoman Empire in
scientific and encyclopedic
collections, in historical sources of
information. She regularly gives
lectures and presentations, revealing
unknown facts from the biographies
of Ukrainian sultans to the general
public.

ISBN: 978-966-10-8589-2
112 pages
Hardcover
Illustrated by Oleg Kinal
 Synopsis

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The life story of the Ukrainian sultan Roksolana (Hürrem Sultan). As the wife of the most powerful Sultan Suleiman the
Magnificent and the mother of his descendant Selim II, she corresponded with the Polish king Sigismund II Augustus, as well
as the sister of Persian Shah Taghmasp, Sultan Beygum, with the aim of peace negotiations. At the same time, she
contributed to the arrival in Istanbul of the leader of the Kyiv Cossacks, Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi. Having great influence on
the politics of the Ottoman Empire, she was actively involved in charity.

The events in the story are reproduced based on Ottoman, Polish, and Hungarian archival documents and relate to
Roksolana's political activities and her personal life, which was like a fairy tale. After all, a Ukrainian woman from the
Crimean Tatar captivity was able to rise to the status of the wife of Sultan Suleiman and, in fact, the co-ruler of the Ottoman
Empire.
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