Once Dante saw eight-year-old Beatrice at a Florentine festival and fell in love with her for the rest of his life. This happened to Sergei Krasnopevtsev, a Soviet diplomat who met blonde Anna on an escalator in the Moscow metro. And Michele Pozolini, having fallen in love at first sight with the same woman, ruined his diplomatic career for just one meeting with the Russian Beatrice. What secret did she carry?