About the book: 2013 / Moscow is cheerful and rich at the end of the 19th century: merchants walk magnificently, nobles revel noisily. A gypsy choir sings to them. With a generous hand, industrialists and aristocrats throw gifts and money at the feet of the gypsies... But Prince Sbezhnev surprised everyone by wooing one of the chorus girls, the beautiful Nastya. And the fatal beauty would have become a princess, given her misfortune, she fell in love with the poor camp gypsy Ilya... What will become of them now and where their crazy fate will lead them - only God knows!