The “Silver Age” became for Russia a time of indecisive men and femme fatales. The weakening of the will of the ruling class of pre-revolutionary Russia led to the fact that, without any officially proclaimed equality of rights, the “Russian Amazons” took an increasing part in politics and economics, ruled men rather than obeying them. The heroines of this book are now practically forgotten, but each was famous in its time and played a fatal role in the life of Russia.