About the book: 2005 / It’s about her that Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy wrote the famous lines: There was a cheerful queen Elizabeth... And indeed, in no other reign in Russia was they so loved have fun: organize fun and masquerades, balls and performances. But the reign of Elizaveta Petrovna (1741-1761) is also twenty years of Russian history, which included the opening of Moscow University and the founding of the Academy of Arts, the victories of Russian weapons in the Seven Years’ War and the public whipping of recent secular beauties who shone at court balls, “the matter "The Saltychikhs and murders of Vanka Cain... The book, written by the famous St. Petersburg historian Evgeny Viktorovich Anisimov, is essentially the first biography in our country of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, the beloved daughter of Peter the Great.