Her name was Elena Dyakonova. But she went down in history as Gala - the muse and wife of the French poet Paul Eluard, and then the Spanish artist Salvador Dali. When we pronounce this short name, which sounds the same in all languages of the world, the image of an extraordinary woman, decisive and charismatic, appears in our imagination. She was not a beauty, but she had a special feminine magnetism that made men go crazy over her. The whole world is still re-reading Dali’s diaries and letters, in which he praises his wife. About what this woman was like and how she lived her life, in the book of the writer Elena Litvinskaya. The publication is supplemented with illustrations and memoirs of the heroine’s contemporaries.