About the book: 2018 / The daughter of a count, the wife of a senator, the niece of the last Polish king Stanislav Poniatowski, Anna Potocka (1779–1867) by her very origin was destined for the role , which she played so brilliantly in Polish and French society. Beautiful, bright, intelligent, courageous, she passionately loved her unfortunate homeland and, without losing hope for its revival, remained devoted to Napoleon to the end, with whom not only she pinned these hopes. A witness to great events - she lived in Warsaw and Paris - Countess Potocka described them with a purely feminine attention to significant, albeit small, details. A look, a manner of communication, a random word that escapes tells her about a person much more than his “ceremonial” portrait, and we follow her with constant interest in her accurate observations and bold conclusions. Curious, fresh and unusual to the modern eye are the characteristics of Napoleon, Marie Louise, Alexander I, Countess Walewska, Murat, Talleyrand, Grand Duke Konstantin, Novosiltsev and many other representatives of that restless era, in which, according to the countess, “so many joyful memories and desperate cries were mixed».