The black eagle

AD 964. Empress Anastasia entrusts Kardan, the son born of their secret relationship, to Karkan. The Hun leader realizes that his love will not be able to break away from the Byzantine court and decides to return to his homeland, where the Hun tribes are preparing to elect a prince. Anastasia, still relying on her lover, Advocate General Hanes, in the court, gradually removes her rivals from power, purposefully paving the way to the throne in front of her son, Basilius, who was born to the emperor Roman, who is with her brothers Crater and Georgina. However, the balance of power is fragile, and when King Otto of Germany, who AD. In 955 he suffered a heavy defeat at Augsburg against the Hungarian army led by Bulcsú, Lél and Súr, AD. In 962, after the occupation of much of Italy, he crowned himself German-Roman emperor, and the Italian estates of the Byzantine Empire were endangered. Then Odelia Scleros, Georgina's old enemy, returns to the court, who, in alliance with Commander-in-Chief Johannes Tzimikész, launches an attack on the reigning emperor Nicholas Phocas and Empress Theophanó, in which the whole empire trembles ... novel about one of the most prominent queens of the Byzantine Empire and the history of the Hungarian tribes before the founding of the state.