Famous historian and writer Yevgeny Anisimov talks about the five rulers of a huge country. About women whose rule went down in the history of Russia under the name "century of women" - Catherine I, Anna Ioannovna, Anna Leopoldovna, Elizaveta Petrovna and Catherine II. They all entered the struggle for power, paying dearly for their place on the Russian throne; all sacrificed to the idol of power their dreams of love and ordinary female happiness, peace and comfort of family life, the joy of motherhood, inner peace.