Alexandra Kollontai is one of the unsolved mysteries of Russia. The world's first female ambassador lived a unique life on the main historical stage in an era of social upheaval and combined in one person the incompatible: refined aristocracy and revolutionary romanticism, reckless courage and deft pragmatism, genuine erudition and fanatical dogmatism. Until her old age, she remained a magical woman, driving both the young and the gray-haired crazy. Her biography, devoid of omissions and falsifications, is an amazingly powerful novel - secular, political, love, detective, sentimental... And a horror novel - ultimately...