She was called the first beauty of the era. He loved her more than life itself, the first poet of Russia died for her, to whom she was not only his wife, but also his muse. Natalya Nikolaevna lived with Pushkin for only six years, and, honestly, these years cannot be called a cloudless paradise. A marriage with a genius is never simple or easy, so Alexander Sergeevich sometimes became unbearable in everyday life: there was “African” jealousy, a difficult character, money problems, debts, a drop in popularity (the public did not immediately accept the new, “adult” , the truly great Pushkin), and at the end of it all - the terrible days of his death agony... And the dirty rumors that spread immediately after the fatal duel: they say, Pushkin’s jealousy did not arise out of nowhere, they say, it was the “fickle” wife who killed the brilliant poet , and how much longer could he live, how much more could he write... Natalya Nikolaevna probably knew about this gossip, she lived with this burden for a quarter of a century, proving to herself and others day after day: no matter what the envious people and slanderers lied to, she was worthy of her great husband. This book is a look at the personal world of a genius through the eyes of the person closest to him, a touching novel about short happiness with Pushkin and a long life after him, in which there were seven years of widow's mourning, and remarriage, and grown children, and bright memory about the “sun of Russian literature” that set so early.