Il sultano e' battuto

http://www.istanbullife.org/le_donne_dell_harem.htm

Khurrem o Hurrem (allegra)

Fu la favorita del Sultano Soleimano Kanuni ,"il magnifico".
Schiava, di nazionalità russa, per gli storici è conosciuta col nome di Roxelana.
Il cronista di quei tempi Pietro Bragadino scrive:
- ....altra donna di nation rossa, giovine non bella ma grasiada -.
Fu la madre di tre figli: il Sultano Selim II., il principe Murad e Maometto e di una figlia Mihrimah Sultana.
Grazie alla sua prontezza di spirito, alla sua furbizia ed alla sua intelligenza, fu la consigliera del Sultano fino alla sua morte.
Il Sultano fece costruire per lei un mausoleo nel giardino della moschea che porta il suo nome. Ad Istanbul, molte opere di beneficienza furono finanziate da lei.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxelana
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/roxelana.html

In the Harem, she gradually worked her way up to become Süleyman's favourite concubine, gaining the name "Hasseki." In 1534 she used her influence to have Süleyman's firstborn son, together with his mother, sent away to be a provincial governor, and several years later apparently persuaded Süleyman to have him strangled - see Süleyman the Magnificent for details.

Khourrem was to bear Süleyman five children and, in an astonishing break with tradition, eventually became his wife, leading to one of her sons, Selim, inheriting the empire. Khourrem also may have acted as Süleyman's advisor on matters of state, and seems to have had an influence upon foreign affairs and international politics. Two of her letters to the Polish King Sigismund Augustus have been preserved and during her lifetime, the Ottoman Empire generally had peaceful relations with the Polish state. Some historians also believe that she may have intervened with her husband to control Crimean Tatar slave-raiding in her native land.