Matilda Kshesinskaya has always been famous. Still would! The incomparable prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater, the beloved woman of the Heir himself, the future Emperor Nicholas II. Then life brought her together with the Grand Dukes Sergei Mikhailovich and Andrei Vladimirovich, whose intimate friend she was for many years. With the latter, already in exile, she was legally married. The name of Matilda is well known to our readers both from numerous publications in the press and from her own “Memoirs”, where, however, she reported only what she considered necessary to report. A book about her, about Matilda, Mati, Kshesinskaya, about her long - 99 years - life is being published for the first time. Jean Vronskaya is a famous journalist, has lived abroad since 1969. An unusually energetic person, she worked a lot in archives, reviewed mountains of newspapers and magazines and created a work that is not a story or a novel, but rather a fictionalized chronicle of the life of Matilda Kshesinskaya. It turned out to be both authentic and exciting.