About the book: 2011 / Natalya Goncharova has a very interesting fate. The first beauty of Moscow married the great poet when she was 17 years old. She came out homeless. And then? “Pushkin was, first of all, a victim of his wife’s tactlessness and her inability to behave,” wrote Vyazemsky, who, by the way, was himself in love with Goncharova. Zhukovsky had the exact opposite opinion. So, Russia split: some accused Goncharova of the death of the “sun of Russian poetry,” others idolized her intelligence, beauty and grace. So why did that fatal duel happen? And was there really a conspiracy between Dantes and Baron Heeckeren, who were more than once accused of sodomy? This book by the famous writer Natalia Gorbacheva - a sensational investigation into the life and love of Pushkin and Goncharova - reads like a wonderful novel, and thanks to the huge amount of historical material, it really sheds light on the events of that era.