About the book: 2000 / The most illustrious and powerful Prince Menshikov prepared a brilliant future for his daughter Maria: her wedding with Emperor Peter II is about to take place. But the upstart Aleksashka’s longtime enemies, the well-born Dolgorukovs, intervened, and he was thrown from the heights of power into the abyss of suffering and oblivion, and with him the whole family and daughter. And no one can imagine that the “bride of the emperor” can only rejoice at such a tragic turn of her fate, for her heart is given to Fyodor Dolgorukov, whose secret wife she became... Edition 2000 In earlier editions, the novel was published under the title “In the Arms of ghost", in later ones - under the name "The Sovereign's Bride".