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I continue the story of how women changed the course of history. So let me remind you: a riot broke out in Constantinople and the revolutionaries decided to elect their emperor. Justinian decided to flee to the Crimea and waited for the kitchen to come closer. But his wife, ex-circus performer and hetaira Theodora, grabbed him firmly by the elbow. She said: “If you want to save yourself by running away, sir, it’s not difficult. We have a lot of money and the sea is close and there are boats. But make sure that you who are saved don’t have to choose death over salvation. ”Perhaps she didn’t say that at all, but in any case, she made it clear that she would rather die now as an empress than later as an exile.
– Go fight! He told Justinian.
The emperor came out of his slumber and gathered the commanders loyal to him. They were able to bribe and persuade the rebel oligarchs, then they asked all the street activists to gather at the racecourse for the ceremony of the peaceful transfer of power to the new emperor.
At a signal, legionaries loyal to the emperor stormed the racecourse and killed 30,000 street activists. So the Nika uprising was drowned in blood and Byzantium was saved from civil war …
All characters are historical and any match with living people is accidental.
And women, even getters and circus performers, sometimes turn out to be braver than their emperors!
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