Ice house

1739. Artemiy Petrovich Volynsky - the cabinet minister of Empress Anna Ioannovna. He is handsome, intelligent, and his court career is developing brilliantly, but one circumstance could spoil everything - Volynsky is very amorous. This time his choice fell on the favorite of Anna Ioannovna - Moldavian princess Marioritsa Lelemiko, and the empress is unlikely to approve of this, as Volynsky is married. Alas, Volynsky forgets about caution, and his political rival Ernst Johann Biron decides to take advantage of this. This is the plot of the famous novel by I. Lazhechnikov "The Ice House", where authentic events of the reign of Anna Ioannovna and the author's fiction are intricately intertwined.