About the book: 1989 / A subtle, ironic and amusingly piquant historical novel about the amazing fate of the most educated and extravagant woman of the late Middle Ages - Duchess Margarita, nicknamed Maultash (Large-Haired ) - and about a long-term war between two women - a wife and a favorite, in which the weapon of one was beauty and charm, and the weapon of the other was a brilliant mind and a truly divine talent for weaving sophisticated intrigues.