They inspired poets and novelists who loved or hated them - to such an extent that this love or hatred turned out to be impossible to contain in their hearts. It definitely had to be made public property! This is how millions of readers learned what passion for which beauty drove Dostoevsky crazy, what treacherous eyes Lermontov could not forget, whom Pushkin was jealous of, whose first ball Tolstoy so lovingly describes... The secret of the great muses beckons and haunts. Natasha Rostova, Tatyana Larina, Nastasya Filippovna, Margarita - read about those who created these images and their lovers in the historical short stories by Elena Arsenyeva...