In the old days, when Russian tsars had not yet made it fashionable to marry only foreign princesses, Simeon of Polotsk predicted young Natalya Naryshkina that she would become the love of the sovereign. And so it soon happened - Alexey Mikhailovich took the poor but beautiful noblewoman as his wife. Since then, the Naryshkin family was favored by the royal court, girls and ladies of this family gladly found themselves among the favorites of the sovereigns. And only the beautiful Zinaida Naryshkina resisted the monarch’s love - contrary to all prophecies! Why is the answer in her notes...