A troubled inheritance went to Count Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov, governor of the South of Russia. Unrest in Moldova and Crimea, the Greeks are eager to help their rebel compatriots. “Southern Society,” having gathered under its wing young aristocratic officers who had absorbed the ideas of European democrats, began to pose a serious threat to autocracy. The empire is ripe for change, and the only question is who will be the first to decide on it. And then there is the young poet and troublemaker Alexander Pushkin who is clearly carried away by the beautiful countess and showers her with signs of attention... The new novel by the famous writer Olga Eliseeva is a real gift to all lovers of action-packed historical literature!