A book by the well-known historian, writer, and publicist Kazimir Waliszewski (1849–1935) tells about the life and reign of the daughter of Peter I and Empress Catherine I—Elizabeth Petrovna. Many vivid pages of Russian history of the mid-18th century are connected with the name of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. It was during her reign that Russia defeated the King of Prussia, Frederick II, in the Seven Years’ War; it was in the years of her rule that Moscow University was founded and it was then that the great Lomonosov made his discoveries. About Elizabeth’s twenty-year reign—the daughter of Peter the Great—about the personality and fate of the Empress, K. Waliszewski, an outstanding expert in 18th-century Russian history, reflects based on vast archival material.