In the portraits they are majestic and impregnable .. Their fates are surrounded by speculation, gossip, slanders of both contemporaries and descendants. And what were these women really? Did they have to experience what was available to simple subjects: to love and be loved? The husbands of the queens could have favorites and publicly give them signs of attention ... Therefore, only secretly, ashamed and hiding, the wives of autocrats gave vent to their feelings . About the happy and unhappy love of Russian rulers: Princess Olga, daughter of Peter the Great Elizabeth, Empress Anna Ioannovna and others - read in the brilliant novels of Elena Arsenieva...