The real Princess Tarakanova never laid claim to the throne and hid her royal origins. That person who in the early 1770s. traveled around Europe, posing as the heir to the throne “Princess of All Russia”, she was an adventurer and an impostor who appropriated someone else’s name. It was she who worked for the Jesuits, Poles and Turks, who were intriguing against Russia; It was Alexey Orlov who caught her and took her to St. Petersburg, where the false princess died of tuberculosis in the Peter and Paul Fortress. And the real Tarakanova, the illegitimate daughter of Empress Elizabeth, refused to participate in the machinations of her enemies and took monastic vows under the name Dosithea... Read the first historical novel about this selfless woman who voluntarily abdicated the throne, sacrificing not only her life, but also her love and womanhood for Russia happiness!