Remarkable Russian Women in Pictures Prose and Poetry

Many Russian women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries tried to find authentic religious marital professional and political experiences. Some very remarkable ones found these things in varying degrees while others sought unsuccessfully but no less desperately to transcend the generations-old restrictions imposed by church state village class and gender. Like a Slavic Downton Abbey this book tells the stories not just of their outward lives but of their hearts and minds their voices and dreams their amazing accomplishments against overwhelming odds and their roles as feminists and avant-gardists in shaping modern Russia and indeed the twentieth century in the West. In their own words and images and each in their own unique way these remarkable Russian women construct a fascinating tapestry of a culture at the crossroads of modernity and on the brink of catastrophe.