There really was something gypsy about the inconspicuous, stooped woman with bulging eyes: she took over her southern features and temperament from her father, a Spanish singer. And the talented singer really had a lot of temperament: in her youth, her first hobby was Franz Liszt, later she became interested in the composer Charles Gounod, and even later - the great writer Turgenev. She herself was a singer and had a voice of amazing beauty and power. Maybe it was he who hypnotized men like that?.. She performed in the best halls in Europe and enjoyed enormous success. Viardot's popularity was so great that George Sand made her the prototype of the main character of the well-known novel “Consuelo.” This mysterious, ugly, but attractive woman, like a drug, managed to chain the writer to her for the rest of her life. Their romance lasted for 40 long years and divided Turgenev’s entire life into periods before and after meeting Polina. He was never able to get rid of his passion for her and always flew to her at her first call, no matter what side of the ocean she was on, and neither time, nor distance, nor even her marriage was an obstacle to this... All his life, Turgenev madly loved only one woman - the mysterious and inexplicable Pauline Viardot...