Our history is intertwined with the history of Russia. There is heroism and cruelty, meanness and nobility, chronological accuracy and the author’s shameless fiction. A serf girl, the illegitimate daughter of a tyrant, General Izmailov, is sent overseas, to Constantinople, to the harem of the Turkish Sultan Selim III, according to the plan of the military attaché at the Russian embassy, Count Dmitry Izmailov, the son of the old general. The main task is to prevent the Ottoman Empire from entering into a secret conspiracy with Austria and weakening it due to internal contradictions. Acquaintance with the Sultan's harem and its inhabitants, learning the science of seduction, meeting with a contact disguised as a cabin boy of the Greek fleet. Envy, intrigue, recruitment of a eunuch, death of a rival and hard erotic scenes await you on the pages of this book. The task is brilliantly completed, but the heroine dies during a riot and a palace coup at the hands of the Janissaries. Russia wisely used the weakening of the Porte and recaptured the entire Caucasian coast of the Black Sea from it.