The Russian Silver Age, the glorious age of the flowering of the arts, a breath of freedom on the eve of suffocation... And what women were like then! Beauty, talent, audacity, unpredictability! You will meet them on the pages of this book - Lyudmila Vilkina and Nina Pokrovskaya, Nadezhda Lvova and Adelina Adalis, Zinaida Gippius and Cherubina de Gabriak, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova, Sofia Volkonskaya and Larisa Reisner. Inessa Armand and Maya Kudasheva-Rolland, Salome Andronnikova and Maria Andreeva, Lilya Brik, Ariadna Scriabin, Maria Skobtseva... They were creators and muses and heroines... What characters! Among the epithets in their descriptions and in their self-definitions, one unexpected word flashes every now and then - steel. So maybe they really were like that, these brilliant harbingers of the Steel Age?