About the book: 2008 / The author invites the reader to take a trip to Europe in the 19th century with the heroes of the novel and plunge into the world of passions and bliss. Fashionable salons and boudoirs of social beauties, luxurious mansions and the streets of European capitals, filled with exquisitely dressed people - this is the stage on which the amazing love story of young Arlette de Fere and the Russian aristocrat Sergei Dashkov unfolds.