The names of these women are on everyone's lips, any cultured person knows something about them. But this is something - most likely rumors, speculation and even gossip. The authors of this book - historians - rely, as befits scientists, only on proven facts. The stories and essays that make up the collection are different in language and style, but they are united by a desire for historical truth. This is the main advantage of the book. The reader only needs to keep in mind that not only virtues, but also vices can be legendary. Therefore, Nefertiti and Messalina, Euphrosyne of Polotsk and Cleopatra, Margarita of Navarre and Julia coexist in the book...