The period from the 1890s to the 1930s in Russia was a time of fundamental transformations: from social and political structure to aesthetic attitudes in art. This also affected both the social status of women and the forms of their representation in the literature. Art Nouveau culture actively experimented with gender roles and the concept of androgyny, and the number of women authors who appeared at the beginning of the 20th century is incomparable with previous periods in the history of Russian literature.