About the book: 2005 / The cruel landowner Maria Dolgorukaya manipulates her daughters and dreams of taking over the neighboring estate of Korfov. Her eldest daughter, Liza Dolgorukaya, did not forget her childhood love for Vladimir Korfu. And the princess reads Liza for the hated Zabaluev, the leader of the district nobility. Will Lisa submit to her mother's will? Why does Dolgorukaya hate Korfov so much? And isn’t Zabaluev behind the dark affairs going on in the district? Natasha Repnina is in love with a friend of Repnin and Korf - Andrei Dolgoruky, the son of an autocratic princess. Andrei is torn between his feelings for Natasha and his attraction to the serf girl Tatyana…