Yuri Dombrovsky's book (1909-1978) about Shakespeare "the Dark lady. Novella in stories " was first published in 1969, and srazuobrela wide popularity among the then reading public. However, the fate of this book was difficult. The first version was written in the Alma-ATA exile in 1946. But only twenty years later the writer had the opportunity to publish it, and a wonderful book graphic artist Pavel Bunin made a series of illustrations for the future book.Dombrowski supplemented the story with two large fragments, one of which was to be the final, third part of the book,and the other to be included in the first part. But the publishing house had no right to increase the "planned" volume of books. In 1968, the finished set of books was distributed for "non-literary" reasons. Illustrations were published by ne-Li. However, the missing fragments remained in the author's archive.The book attempts to restore the author's idea based on a close analysis of the texts included in the first edition and not included in it, and for the first time published illustrations. Two works by Dombrowski about Shakespeare are published in "Appendices", as well as a correspondence with the most authoritative Russian Shakespeare scholar Aleksan-Drom Anikst, who highly appreciated the"Dark lady".