Empress Elizabeth and Louis XV. Vandal A.

It would seem that it could be more boring than the history of diplomatic relations between the two powers? But when reading the book of the famous French historian Academician A. Vandal (1853-1910), there is no time to miss: intrigues, secrets, dressing up and the struggle for the interests of his country, and sometimes against - all this, supported by references to a huge number of official documents and private archives, It turns into an exciting canvas. And gradually we begin to understand hidden impulses that sometimes moved the most important events in the life of Russia and Western Europe of the XVIII century.