Who are they, wonderful adventurers who have glorified themselves in our Fatherland? What motivated these women, forcing them to seek adventure and try to change their destiny? Why, despite the difficulties and dangers, did they follow not the path that awaited them from birth, but along the one chosen by them, which is why they fiercely argued with the will of heaven, thereby striking and delighting their contemporaries? Read about the dazzling splendor and sad decline of Princess Tarakanova’s star, about the passionate adventures of Peter I’s favorite Anna Mons in the historical short stories of Elena Arsenyeva...