Long ago, her great-grandmother on her father’s side told Lara that she would be a “wanderer”—a woman who loves to roam. Around the same time, or more precisely, just a few moments later, Lara’s mother said the old woman was simply senile, and that little Lara shouldn’t visit that unpleasant relative. Who could have known that Lara would have to live her life out of time, adapt to life in the 19th century, meet the future emperor, and take part in the Decembrists’ uprising?