Maria Volkonskaya. Hidden Love by Pushkin

The captivating image of Princess Maria Nikolaevna Volkonskaya (nee Raevskaya, 1805-1863), the legendary "Russian woman", the daughter of the hero of the Napoleonic wars and the wife of the Decembrist, followed by the convicted spouse in Siberia -was captured in Russian and foreign poetry, prose and memoirism, in painting , dramaturgy and cinema, in the writings of historians, publicists and literary critics.
The first readers are proposed to the first in Russian historiography a detailed biography of M.N. Volkonskaya. According to the author of the book by M. D. Filin, the main event of her turbulent, complete dramatic and mysterious pages of life was the acquaintance with Pushkin, which grew into mutual "hidden love" - love for all the years he released. Traces of this feeling, only stronger, are found in the separation of the princess and in many works of the poet