“Poetry will always remain poetry and many pages of your novel will live until the Russian language is forgotten,” wrote A. S. Pushkin in a letter to the writer I. I. Lazhechnikov in 1835. Is our native Russian language, the greatest in terms of richness of images, originality, expressiveness, still alive? Vsevolodova's books are an attempt to state in the affirmative: Russia, her language, her heroes, her soul are immortal.The stories and the play tell about the remarkable personality of the Russian minister A.P. Volynsky, who was far ahead of his time and paid for it head. Some of his state projects were implemented by such famous domestic educators as Lomonosov and Shuvalov, others - Stolypin tried to implement, many - have not found their executor to this day.In the days of the greatest national trials, on a new historical crossroads, the name of Volynsky, “the first Russian zemstvo”, as P.V. Polezhaev aptly called the minister in the book “Biron and Volynsky. 150 years ago. A historical novel from the time of Anna Ioannovna”, has always attracted the Russian public.The author tried to give his works the form and genre characteristic of the works of the 18th century.