What was she, the chosen one of the Russian genius? An empty secular beauty, carried away by balls, ravaging her husband with outfits, the culprit of his death?.. A.I. Kuprin, impressed by Pushkin's letters to his wife, will say: "I would like to imagine the woman whom Pushkin loved in all the happiness of owning such a person." May four children, a deeply religious person, the wife of the Poet, who saw in her "the purest charm the purest sample," "sweet, pure, kind creature..." She had to suffer a lot, she paid an exorbitant price for her beauty.