Author of book Татьяна Илларионовна Меттерних (урожд. Васильчикова) is a "woman with five passports" and with a surprizing fate, author of many best sellers. Her course of life appeared closely casebound with the fate of Russia the same as and history of sort of Строгановых, with that she is brought together on a maternal line, inseparable from history of our Homeland during the last five centuries. A book does not apply on scientific research of expounded historical facts, rather it is a domestic chronicle, domestic legends saved in memory.