Anna Petrovna Kern, Russian noblewoman, that very "wonderful moment," a mysterious lady who, like a shadow, always stands next to Pushkin. Every schoolboy knows her name today, but, alas, very little is known about her. Unhappy marriage in youth, long years of suffering and miserable existence in old age, albeit next to a loved one. Being a member of secular high society in her youth, Anna Petrovna knew high-ranking persons, people of art, even met with Emperor Alexander I. Kern anxiously kept letters, which later became the basis of her memoirs.