Outrage is their life credo, bright unforgettable emotions are a joy for the heart, scandal is the only possible way of existence! For these extraordinary ladies there were no prohibitions in love, they despised conventions, laughed at public morality, their conscience lived according to their own laws . They hated them, and worshipped them, and despised them, and exalted them to the heavens. About the life of the brilliant Sophia Kovalevskaya, the indomitable Alexandra Kollontai, the cunning Sonka Golden Pen and other women known for their scandalous reputation, read in the historical novels of Elena Arsenieva...