She was the first Russian film star. Not only the first, but perhaps the brightest. There was no other star of this magnitude in Russia. Each of the subsequent movie stars certainly had a rival. Vera Kholodnaya had no rivals. “Queen of the screen”, “film beauty” - that’s what critics called her. There were huge queues for her films. Postcards with her photographs sold millions of copies. She was a virtuous woman, but her life and especially her death are surrounded by so many different legends and gossip that separating the grains of truth from the chaff of bright legends is far from an easy task. She lived only 26 years. The story of the disappearance of her body is another legend of Vera... No longer of life, but of death.