The heroine of this book called her life a novel, albeit a very sad one. Researchers often paid attention to the second part of the statement, forgetting about the first. Meanwhile, Dashkova’s biography contains intrigues, coups, scandals, attempted political assassinations and great love. The love of one woman for another. According to the laws of time, such a feeling could not be happy, but it gave abundant state fruits. Read the new book by the famous historian and writer Olga Eliseeva about the fate of one of the most controversial and amazing figures of the 18th century.