Name. Jungfer chamber. Salias E.

The summer of 1740. In St. Petersburg, restless. Sovereign Anna Ioannovna is ill, doctors are afraid for her life, which means that the earth leaves under the feet of the temporarger Biron, so he hastily strengthens his own power-hesitates seeking to buy money and ranks, and even if imaginary, throws into dungeons. Any person, even far from politics, may be in the fortress on a false denunciation. And this happens with the young nobleman Lvov, who, having escaped from the arrest, is forced to become a name, that is, to take someone else's, German, name, but the fate of Lviv still depends on how the struggle for the throne, which will soon become vacant.

This is the plot of the novel “The Name”, and a peculiar addition of this story is the story “Camer-Jungfer”, where the action takes place in the fall of 1740, after the death of Anna Ioannovna.