This book-sensation is a look to the fate of Russian genius of known Italian пушкинистки, researcher and connoisseur of Russian literature Серены Витале. Written on the basis of documentary sources, and main, letters of Жоржа Дантеса to his foster-father, that were first given to the author from the domestic archive of Геккернов, she lines up the chain of events, bringing Pushkin over to the tragic duel. Витале tells that to the friends Pushkin soon after a duel causing her veritable reason became known, but they agreed to keep a thing private her.