The Ice House

1739. Artyomiy Petrovich Volynskiy — cabinet minister of Empress Anna Ioannovna. He is handsome, smart, and his court career is developing brilliantly, but one circumstance can ruin everything — Volynskiy is very enamored. This time, his choice has fallen on... the favorite of Anna Ioannovna — the Moldavian princess Mariorita Lelemiko, and the empress is unlikely to take this favorably, as Volynskiy is married. Alas, Volynskiy forgets about caution, and his political rival — Ernst Johann Biron — decides to take advantage of it.
This is the plot of the famous novel by I. Lazhechnikov "The Ice House", where genuine events from the reign of Anna Ioannovna and the author's fiction are whimsically intertwined.