About the book: 2015 / "Prince of Tauride" - a dramatic scene by the talented Russian poet and writer Alexei Nikolaevich Apukhtin (1840–1893). * * * Colonel Bauer arrives at the monastery of Prince Tauride. He brings a magic potion with him and asks Secretary Yuzevich to add it to the prince’s food in order to reconcile him with Prince Zubov... Alexey Apukhtin is known as the author of the collections “Poems”, “High Society Poems”, “Humorous Poems”, “Selected Poems”, prose works “The Unfinished Story”, “Between Life and Death”, “The Diary of Pavlik Dolsky”, “The Archives of Countess D.” Alexey Nikolaevich Apukhtin had an excellent sense of humor and was a brilliant speaker. His works enjoyed great success during the poet’s lifetime, and after his death they were republished several times. M. Bulgakov himself admired his prose, and many of his romances were set to music by his friend P. I. Tchaikovsky and other famous composers.