Great and unknown women of Ancient Russia

Princess Olga-Yelen, Polotsk Princess Rogned Rogvoldovna, Byzantine princesses Anna Romanovna and Maria Konstantinovna, German Princess Oda, nun Anna-Yanka, Empress Eupraxia-Adelhaide, Swedish princess Christina, Novgorod Lyubava Dmitrievna ... The life of these and many outstanding women -Xiii centuries. She had a serious impact on the formation and development of the Old Russian state, the expansion of international contacts, the perception of the best examples of world culture on Russian ground, including architecture, painting, writing and applied art. The names of some of them are well known, others remained on the pages of the annals and are almost forgotten. The author is trying to characterize not only "heroines", but also their living conditions, the image of the era, and most importantly, people who surround them, so the reader arises historical portraits of the largest figures of that era (Yaroslav the Wise, Vladimir Monomakh, etc), and is done An attempt to reconstruct their views on the world, the circumstances of the formation of their personalities and their family.
The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers