There is a Russian proverb: don’t swear off money or prison. In the life of the heroine of this book there was both scrip and prison, and there was also loyalty and betrayal, poverty and wealth, and joy and sorrow were immeasurable. But the main thing that accompanied her from an early age until her last breath was truly popular love. Writer Sergei Mikheenkov talks about a unique phenomenon in Russian culture, about how Praskovya Leikina, an orphan from the Volga village of Danilovka, who asked for Christ in the courtyards of rich Saratov houses, miraculously turned into a brilliant singer, an unsurpassed performer of Russian folk songs, Lydia Ruslanova. Such a fate simply could not help but give rise to legends and even fables. A new biography, written on the basis of the memories of her loved ones, friends and relatives, opens many unknown pages in the life of the great singer. sign of information products 16 +