Among the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Russia there were few women from high society. What made the daughter of a Russian general, a hero of the Russian-Turkish War, join the revolutionaries and why did the leaders of the Soviet state trust her? What secrets were shrouded in the life of the first people's commissar of state charity and the author of the concept of the “New Woman”? How did the long-term representative of the Soviet state manage to survive the years of repression? The reader will find the answer to these and many other questions in the proposed book. Sign of information products 12+