The purpose of this book is to tell about the little-known period of Natalia Nikolaevna's life after the death of Pushkin. To see her no longer as a wife, but as the widow of a poet who opposes the slander of light, the mother of young children, essentially lonely among relatives and friends. The fate of the descendants of Natalia Nikolaevna, to whom the second part of the book is dedicated, has also remained a white spot until now. Authors define their genre as a documentary-artistic narrative. They do not impose their opinions - they simply build facts, documents, letters, photographs into a chronological chain, which in such a combination speak for themselves. The book contains more than 600 portraits and photographs, most of which are published for the first time, as well as hitherto unknown materials from the personal archives of the descendants of Natalia Nikolaevna.