Everyone knows Anna Kern as the woman who inspired the “sun of Russian poetry” A. S. Pushkin to one of his masterpieces. She was the beauty of her era, who turned the head of not only Pushkin. Only a few portraits of her have survived to this day, from which it is very difficult for us to judge her beauty. What Anna Kern was like and how she lived her life, what was special about her, besides meeting Pushkin, the reader will learn from this book. The publication is supplemented with a large number of illustrations and quotes from the memoirs of Kern herself and her contemporaries.