About the book: 2023 / It would seem that the identity of the last Russian Empress - Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, born German Princess Alice Hesse-Darmstadt (1872–1918) - has been well studied by historians. However, her image in different descriptions varies - from demonic to saintly (together with other executed members of the royal family, Alexandra Feodorovna was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church). Biographical books dedicated to her sometimes contradict not only in assessments, but even in facts. Few people have set themselves the task of presenting a living human image of the last Russian empress - a woman with a very difficult and tragic fate. Writer and journalist, winner of the Big Book Prize Pavel Basinsky and poet and prose writer from St. Petersburg Ekaterina Barbanyaga chose an unusual form for their story - a novel-dialogue. And in the center of it are the adventures of the Hessian princess, Alice, who got lost in the Russian Looking Glass..