Who would suspect a spy in a beautiful woman who is accepted in high society or even at the court of autocrats? But it was these ladies who often turned out to be the most reliable agents - after all, who, if not a courteous charmer, would be pleased to tell her secrets to the powers that be?.. And these beauties mastered the methods of seduction and the ability to create fog and mystery to perfection. Some of them took their secrets to the grave, and some suddenly ended such an amazing career - and became ordinary women. But what remained with them forever was an adventurous spirit and the desire to escape from the routine of philistine life. Zoya Voskresenskaya, Elena Ferrari, Lilya Brik - the secret and open lives of these and other “ladies of cloak and dagger” will be discussed in the exciting historical short stories of Elena Arsenyeva …