In an evil hour, the black-eyed handsome man Alexei Leontyev, aka the Spanish spy Jorge Montoya, and the Russian girl Dasha Voronikhin fell in love with each other! And it doesn’t matter that along with this love, love for his long-abandoned homeland awoke in Alex’s heart. By the will of an evil fate, the girl also attracted the attention of the boy Tsar Peter the Second, unwittingly crossing the path of her second cousin Catherine Dolgorukaya. The all-powerful Dolgoruky family is ready for any crime in order to strengthen their influence on the young emperor. And Leontyev, who was sent to Russia on a secret mission, was robbed, stealing the most important thing - a jasper vessel with a potion, which controls the mind and life of those who taste this potion. Dasha finds the treasured vessel, hoping that she will help her lover, but they both cannot foresee the future: neither their own, nor someone else’s, nor all of Russia... Elena Arsenyeva’s bibliography includes more than seven dozen detective, historical, romance novels, as well as several collections of short stories. In her fairy-tale and fantasy stories there are not only real people, but also sorceresses, sorcerers, aliens from other worlds and many other mysterious characters.