About the book: 2012 / The life of women of the 18th century was difficult, contradictory and exciting. Who can tell about the time and about themselves better than eyewitnesses - people who lived in that era. Therefore, in the book you will find many quotes from memoirs and literary works of the 18th century. Memoirists sometimes contradict each other, look at the same people, the same events differently, and are not always accurate in describing the facts. But this is precisely what makes their texts living evidence of the era, with all its secrets, contradictions, omissions, and sometimes falsifications and outright lies. Of course, this topic cannot be exhausted with one book. And the day when the number of works devoted to the history of women will be comparable to the number of works describing the history of men is still very far away. And yet, after reading this book to the end, you will know a little more about what it meant to be a woman in 18th century St. Petersburg.