One day, an unusually beautiful girl of quite decent appearance appears, or rather bursts into the police station like a storm. A noblewoman, a graduate of one of the best St. Petersburg gymnasiums, the daughter of a court councilor, Marya Luseva, unexpectedly declares that she is ... a secret prostitute, and demands to give her a yellow ticket ..... The most sensational novel by Alexander Amfitheatrov, a research novel that tells “without deceit, guile and politeness "about prostitution in the upper echelons of Russian power, a power that has long been mired in immorality, lies and meanness...