Anna Kern. Muse of A. S. Pushkin

Everyone knows Anna Kern as the woman who inspired the "sun of Russian poetry" A. S. Pushkin to create one of his masterpieces. She was the beauty of her era, captivating not only Pushkin. Only a few of her portraits have survived to our days, making it very difficult for us to judge her beauty. What Anna Kern was like and how she lived her life, and what was special about it besides her meeting with Pushkin, the reader will learn from this book. The edition is supplemented with a large number of illustrations and quotes from the memoirs of Kern herself and her contemporaries.