About the book: 2017 / This is repeated in every generation: she and he, who were late to be born on time, meet each other and walk hand in hand through a hail of ridicule. Diana de Poitiers was almost twenty years older than Henry II, there are three dozen between Catherine the Great and her favorite Sashenka Lansky, but what do any numbers mean where two shine side by side like real diamonds in a crown? No, where are the diamonds, because any stone can be stolen, but how can you steal tenderness, passion, the dawn of the evening experienced together??..