Olga Yarchyevskaya is a daring Amazon who grew up in the wilderness and therefore kept the directness of her character. For fun, she set out to seek adventure in a man’s guise, as a provincial hussar. In this role she also came to know the plans of the plotters—and then, naturally, events reached a logical conclusion when, still in the uniform of a cornet, she had to twist up the man who attacked the ruler. Olga’s bitter enemy, seeing her plans collapse and learning who was behind it, forged a bill of sale, under which the girl turned out to be a serf…