To get hit by the wheels in the 21st century—and come to your senses in the 18th century? A dubious stroke of luck. Just yesterday Varya was an eighteen-year-old girl, and now she is Varvara Ivanovna, a woman over forty. The only consolation is the title of a princess.
But the advantages end there: there’s no money, she has two children to take care of, her husband—a stern military man—almost never comes home and demands a divorce. On top of that, there’s her father, who is squandering the family fortune, and a brother who has long slipped into drunkenness. On the throne is Catherine II, and in Europe a revolutionary storm is already brewing—so how does one survive in such circumstances?
First of all, try to come to an agreement with her spouse. Only it won’t be easy: Count Suvorov is not the kind of man who backs down from a decision once made. Yes, that very one. And yet he still hasn’t met a rival like this…