Muscovites. Great Women Who Changed the Capital

This book contains stories about twenty incredible women from Moscow — brave, ambitious, talented, and sensitive. Each Muscovite was special: they shone on the theater stage, acted in films, managed manufactories, inspired artists, built and opened schools, hospitals, and maternity homes.
Historian and author of the course "Women in the Big City" Oksana Monakhova tells how Faina Ranevskaya fought her way to the big stage, businesswoman pre-revolutionary Russia Vera Firsanova laid the Sandunov Baths — a model of the bath industry of that time, and designer Nadezhda Lamanova developed dresses that any woman could sew for herself independently.