Герцогиня и «конюх»

"The Duchess and the "Groom"" is a novel by an outstanding Russian prosaist, columnist and playwright Roman Lukich Antropov (1876-1913). In the centre of the novel is the period of regiment of Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna, one of the most imperious and tyrannical women on the tsar throne. Other well-known works of the writer are "Genious of Russian Inquiry I.D.Putilin", "Quasimodo of Church of t...