“...Recently I came across materials for the biography of Karl Bryullov, again - for the umpteenth time! - I overlooked the petite notes that explained the main reason why the great painter broke up with Emilia Timm after the first night. Previously, they were silent about this for a long time and bashfully, but even now, as you can see, the terrible drama of the great maestro is reported only in comments, which, as a rule, are rarely read. I won’t talk about the reasons for Bryullov’s divorce, but the story of the destruction of the Bryullov family involuntarily made me remember that there was an old noble house in St. Petersburg, in which something similar happened... We will talk about the Engelhardt family...”