About the book: 2017 / This book contains life stories of great women, extraordinary, idolized, and admired. Lilya Brik, Gala, Marina Tsvetaeva, Valentina Tereshkova, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Alexandra Kollontai, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Maya Plisetskaya and other famous representatives of the fair half of humanity appear at different stages of their life journey: in periods of ups and downs, in moments of making fateful decisions and accidental ones gifts of fate. Each of these women is unique and inimitable, each is worthy of the loudest and most enthusiastic epithets, each name is known to millions. Actresses and ballerinas, politicians and royalty, they all reached the highest peaks in fulfilling their destiny..