The portrait of a remarkable dynasty that, whether we like it or not, has influenced the character of our homeland, Europe and the whole world. The beginnings of the Habsburgs in the 15th century were modest, but in a few decades they gained domination over a substantial part of Europe, from today's Slovakia to Spain. Their empire as a seemingly heterogeneous tangle of larger and smaller territories, with different systems of privileges and laws and many languages, has always acted as something chaotic and temporary. Martyn Rada shows what the incredible resistance of the Habsburg family consisted: in the belief that their fate is to be the defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, the guards of peace and pioneers of education. The Habsburg monarchs were incredibly diverse: we find both commanders and intellectuals, smart and stupid ruler, lazy and exaggerated active, but they were connected by the idea of ​​mission of their family. In Central Europe, their dominance ended only the First World War.