Do we know many great Russian artists? Sofia Sukhovo-Kobylina, Elena Polenova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Bubnova and many other talented women were in no way inferior to their contemporaries — Ilya Repin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Konstantin Korovin, Isaac Levitan. How did it happen that outstanding female artists didn't get the fame they deserved? What was their path to great art, what inspired them, and what prevented them from advancing in their work? How did their destinies intertwine with the turbulent era?Nadezhda Demkina, a St. Petersburg artist and journalist who is in love with her city and art in all its forms, wrote a book about this. Here is a collection of short stories-biographies of seventeen heroines: they have done everything to ensure that millions of other women, girls and girls can practice art today. For me, the important thing in the stories of female artists is not the fact of greatness, but the fact of presence. After their names have not even been mentioned for many years, it is important to simply return them, see their faces, find out their fates, and inquire about their heritage. I want to tell you about many women. Some were truly great. Someone has created significant things. Someone was just doing their job well. Someone has tried to get an education, express themselves, and dropped out of the race, this also happens. For those who are interested in art / Russian history / feminism. There have been many more women in the history of Russian art than you can imagine.