About the book: 1997 / Here are two historical novels by the wonderful Russian writer Valerian Yakovlevich Svetlov (1860–1934). In the most fascinating work "from the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich" "At in the Quiet Yard" V. Ya. Svetlov was able to see history in a new way, it was so interesting to recreate the life of people of that time, with their joys and sorrows, experiences and thoughts, that the whole era appears before the readers as if it was unknown to him before. Several generations in the Kunstkamera they peered at the facial features of a woman whose head had been preserved for viewing for such an ungodly long time, and would have become acquainted with interest with how the writer presented the life of this criminally famous maid of honor of Peter’s time in the novel “Adventurer”.