Wonderful Women. Essays from Russian History (gift edition)

Gift edition with trilateral gold trim.

Daniel Lukich Mordovtsev is a famous writer, a master of Russian historical prose, in whose works I successfully combined the enraged and accuracy. In this book, we present the chosen chapters from its four-volume writings "Russian historical women". This is a gallery of portraits of remarkable Russian women from the times of "Dopererovskaya Rus" until the middle of the XIX century.
Deep knowledge of the story and talent of the writer resurrect the most interesting characters of domestic history: Princess Olga, Elena Glinskaya, Wives of Ivan Grozny, Irina and Ksenia Godunov, Marina Mnishek, Ksenia Romanov, Anna Mons and her sister Matreu Balk, Brides Peter II Mare Menshikov And Catherine Dolgoruky and those who can be called the prototypes of the Decabrists, Natalia Dolgorukkaya and Ekaterina Golovkin, and many other wonderful women, including royal people - Elizabeth Petrovna and her sister, Duchess of Golucket, Anna John and Anna Leopoldova