Petersburg Women. Great Women Who Changed the Northern Capital

Sixteen women — sixteen amazing fates, inextricably linked to the history of St. Petersburg. Empresses, actresses, ballerinas, poets, artists, saints, revolutionaries, and scientists — each of them changed the era in their own way and left a mark on the face of the great city. The book tells the stories of women whose names are forever etched in the history of Petersburg: Catherine II and Xenia of Petersburg, Matilda Kshesinskaya and Anna Akhmatova, Olga Berggolts, Galina Ulanova and other outstanding Petersburg women. Each fate resembles a novel — brilliant triumphs and difficult trials, love and loneliness, stage and backstage, service to people and the struggle for the right to be oneself. Through the stories of these women, St. Petersburg itself comes alive before the reader — majestic and inspiring.