Evdokia Petrovna Rostopchina (1812-1853) - one of the first Russian poets; she acted both as a prose writer and as a playwright. In the 30s and 40s of the last century, her poems were widely popular, her great contemporaries spoke approvingly of Rostopchina's work. She was familiar with Pushkin, Gogol, Ostrovsky, friendly with Lermontov. The book, which is the first Soviet edition of the writer's selected works, includes poems of different years, the story "Ranks and Money," letters, as well as poems dedicated to E.P. Rostopchina.