The author of the book, relying on documentary data, traces the difficult life path of N., full of dramatic collisions. N. Goncharova-Pushkina-Lanskaya. The dazzling, exquisite beauty of this woman was as rare a gift of nature as the genius of her first husband, the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin. She was admired by the most noble and most famous people of that brilliant era. More than a century and a quarter has passed since the death of Natalya Nikolaevna, and interest in her personality has not waned. What was she, this first beauty of both capitals, - a soulless coquette, through whose fault a fatal duel occurred, or a deep, integral personality?...