Нарышкины, или Строптивая фрейлина

In the old days, when Russian tsars had not yet made it fashionable to marry only foreign princesses, Simeon of Polotsk predicted to young Natalya Naryshkina that she would become the sovereign's love. So it soon turned out - a poor but beautiful noblewoman was married to Alexei Mikhailovich. Since then, the Naryshkin family has been treated kindly by the royal court, the girls and ladies of this family gladly found themselves in the favorites of the sovereigns. And only the beautiful Zinaida Naryshkina resisted the love of the monarch - contrary to all the prophecies! Why - the answer is in her notes ...