This unique book takes readers back to the 40-70s of the last century and tells about an extraordinary woman, Baroness Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, whose fate is closely connected with the lives of many famous people. Yulia Vrevskaya voluntarily took part as a nurse in the Russian-Turkish war in the Balkans and died at thirty-seven years old in a typhoid barracks. The novel is illustrated with beautiful drawings by Yuri Ivanov. Portraits of writers, poets, public figures, letters (Yulia Vrevskaya corresponded with I. S. Turgenev for a long time) make it possible to visualize the era and its heroes.