About the book: 2017 / About the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna (1709–1761/62), daughter of Peter the Great, the impression was inspired by the famous lines of A. K. Tolstoy : “Elizabeth was a cheerful queen.” Without disputing her love of love, passion for clothes and pleasures provided by the throne, the author tried to complicate this image, explain the motivations for her actions and supplement her portrait with touches that not only historians, but sometimes even contemporaries paid little attention to.