Три карты усатой княгини

Among the heroines of this book are Grand Duchess Olga and Empress Catherine II, French Queen Anna of Russia and Empress of the "Holy Roman Empire" Eupraxia, the predecessor of the Decembrists Countess Ekaterina Golovkina and the prototype of the "Queen of Spades" - Princess Natalya Golitsyna, artists of the imperial theaters Elizaveta Sandunova, Ekaterina Semenova and Avdotya Istomina, the beauties of the Pushkin circle Anna Kern and Alexandra Smirnova-Rosset, Lermontov's first love is Natalia Ivanova.... The writer and historian Vladislav Petrov brought together facts that were previously scattered and known only to specialists, and took a fresh look at the textbook images of famous Russian women. Artist Tibilova Irina