Necklace lighter. Niece of Prince Potemkin

Remember that most often, when he called out the name of Potemkin? The fact that it was the all-powerful favorite, bathing in luxury, the most talented companion of Catherine the great, great statesman... Someone memory prompt something less significant, such as banal stories about the notorious "Potemkin villages". But, there was a Potemkin-man, with all the peculiarities of his extraordinary nature. And about this private and little known to many part of his life will help to know the book you, the reader, hold in your hands. But this story is not so much about him, but about the fate of the people close to him, his nieces, who shone at the court of Catherine II. They sang then the most eminent poet G. Derzhavin, they were linked by kinship or friendship ties with many famous people with famous heroes N. Raevsky and P. Bagration, with the Decembrists, with I. Krylov and A. Pushkin...
The book is written on the basis of numerous historical materials.