Princess Lyudmila Dmitrievna Shakhovskaya (1850—?) - Russian writer, poet, playwright and translator; author of over three dozen books, several poetry collections; creator of the first Russian Rhyming Dictionary of the Russian Language. Most of Shakhovskaya's works are novels from the lives of the ancient Romans, Greeks, Gauls, and Carthaginians. In content, they represent a single whole - a continuous chain of events following each other. In fact, in these 23 novels, she presented the history of Ancient Rome in artistic form. This volume presents the novel “Sibyl - the Sorceress of the Cumae Grotto,” which takes place in the last years of pre-Republican Rome, during the reign of the tyrant and despot Tarquin the Proud and his wife, the extravagant Tullia . The theme of love runs a special line in the novel...