From the author: “The main character of the novel “Bluebeard’s Wife” was the girl Arina, who grew up in the beauty and luxury of a mansion on the Volzhskaya embankment. By the will of fate and her bankrupt father, she found herself captive of a cruel and influential man - her husband, the millionaire merchant Yegorov. He took his young wife out of town and imprisoned him in a house that looked like a tower... I wrote the book for a long time because I studied historical facts. Many of the events described in it are true. And the launch of the first Nizhny Novgorod tram in 1896, and the construction of steam mills by innovative factory owners, and the city pogroms of 1905, and strikes at enterprises in 1916. Only the heroes of this novel, every single one, are fictitious...” - Olga Volodarskaya