Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) is an artist whose name is inseparable from the turbulent era of revolutionary upheavals, from the hopes and disappointments of his contemporaries. His biography, written by the famous art critic Alexander Yakimovich, includes anecdotes, interludes, scientific hypotheses, subjective guesses and other attempts to get closer to the exciting, frightening and amazing meanings of the paintings of the great master of painting and graphics. The reader will meet here Goya's close friends, like-minded people, antagonists, admirers and rivals. The book also includes the masses, kings, generals, noble ladies, daring girls, freethinkers, inquisitors, guerrilla guerrillas, philanthropists, poets, bullfighters and other inhabitants of Spain and the rest of the world.[Adapted for AlReader]