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XVIII century. Courland. The corpse of a young girl was found on the estate of Karl von Haxln, not far from Mitava. At the same time, von Gackeln's niece, Erika, appears on the estate. She asks her uncle to help her urgently get to the Russian capital. In addition, unexpectedly, an old acquaintance of von Gaksln, Mikhail Nechaev, bursts into the house. He is looking for some crazy girl who was kidnapped at birth from a noble Petersburg lady. The whereabouts of the girl was recently found out for a lot of money, and the lady demands to deliver her daughter to her. Realizing that the mad woman is the same drowned woman and that the searchers do not know her by sight, von Haxln invites Erika to pretend to be a "fool", get to St. Petersburg and there already solve her own business. However, His Majesty Chance decreed in his own way! ..