The novel «The Queens Have No Legs» by Czech writer, People’s Artist of Czechoslovakia Vladimir Neff is devoted to the history of Bohemia in the 16th–17th centuries and the lives of other European countries connected with it. The main hero, Petr Kukaně from Kukaně, the son of an alchemist, by the will of fate ends up at the imperial court, and then in the Vatican and Italy, becoming a participant in the era’s historical events.