In the spring of 1812, the engagement of the brilliant general Armand de Caulaincourt and one of the first beauties of France, Adriene de Canisy, was announced at the French court. The court society is perplexed, because everyone knows about the Count’s fiery passion for the frantic Marquise Angelique de Traille. Napoleonic troops invade Russia, and Angelique unexpectedly appears on the front line. The young woman desperately wants to explain herself to her lover and regain her lost happiness. But Angelica is captured. She is saved from reprisals by a hussar officer, Count Alexei Annenkov. Now Angelica no longer wants to return to her compatriots; the Russian hussar has won her heart. She does not know that for many years Count Annenkov has been the secret lover of the most powerful woman in Russia, Princess Elizabeth Potemkina, the daughter of Catherine the Great herself, and she is not at all happy about the appearance of her rival and is not going to give in.