The novel by modern French writer Regine Desforges takes the reader back to the distant 11th century. The fate of the daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, Princess Anna, connected Rus' and France. Doomed to marry the French king Henry I, Anna Yaroslavna, obedient to the will of her father, goes to a foreign land, not even suspecting that her beloved boyar Philip will not find the spiritual strength to abandon his beloved. Written in 1988, the novel is in Russian translation is presented to Russian readers for the first time.