Her first man was the Tsar, her husband was the first handsome man of the empire, and the love of her life was the great artist Karl Bryullov. It is she, the luxurious Yulia Samoilova, looking from his best paintings. She, insatiable in passion, unfaithful in love, but devoted in friendship, gambling and generous, swept across Russia and Europe like the brightest comet. But was this beautiful woman happy?..