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The author of the book, relying on documentary data, traces the difficult, full of dramatic collisions, the life path of N. N. Goncharova - Pushkina - Lanskaya. The dazzling, exquisite beauty of this woman was as rare a gift of nature as the genius of her first husband, the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin. She was admired by the most distinguished and most famous people of that brilliant era. More than a century and a quarter have passed since the death of Natalia Nikolaevna, and interest in her personality is not weakening. What was she like, this first beauty of both capitals, a soulless coquette, through whose fault a fatal duel took place, or a deep, whole personality? ..