An action-packed spy detective story, based on real events, tells about the dizzying adventures of a Moscow adventuress. The unbridled desire for wealth, adventure and physical pleasure leads her to exciting international intrigues, financial scams and endless novels. The main character of the story is Madame Legare - the owner of tenement houses, an antique store and the owner of a fashionable salon in Paris, where foreign diplomats, scientists, politicians and businessmen. And only the intelligence services know that Natalie Legare - nee Natasha Berezhkovskaya - grew up in a poor Arbat communal apartment and began her incredible career as a kept woman, and later as a KGB agent. The novel takes place in the USSR and France at the end of the last century and up to our days. The author talks with amazing frankness about the work of our and French intelligence services: critical operations, recruitment of agents, successes and failures. The novel does not pretend to be a complete documentary, so it is moderately flavored with fiction, which gives the story poignancy and lightness.