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Ivan Groznyy voshel v istoriyu kak tsar-tiran, a ego zheny — kak bezglasnye teni, ischezayuschie v letopisyah odnoy strokoy. Oni stanovilis zhertvami ego podozritelnosti i zhestokosti. Eta kniga — popytka razglyadet za strokami drevnih tekstov zhivyh zhenschin: yunyh, napugannyh, obrechennyh. Ih kratkie zhizni — tragicheskie epizody, otrazhenie epohi, gde dazhe tsarskaya nevesta byla lish razmennoy monetoy v dinasticheskih igrah. I tem ne menee, brak s kazhdoy iz nih povliyal i na lichnost tsarya, i na istoriyu gosudarstva. Deystvitelno li smert Anastasii Zaharinoy izmenila tsarya navsegda, ozhestochiv ego serdtse? Kak Mariya Temryukovna upravlyala vostochnoy politikoy tsarya? Byla li Marfa Sobakina agentom Malyuty Skuratova? Kak monastyri prevratilis v politicheskie tyurmy dlya zhenschin? O chem istoriki sporyat do sih por? O toy roli, kakuyu, nesmotrya na svoe zybkoe polozhenie, sygrali tsaritsy pri dvore Ivana IV, i rasskazyvaet eta kniga. Cherez ih istorii chitatel uvidit, kakoy tsenoy oplachivalos «velikoe» pravlenie i pochemu zhenskie imena tak legko stiralis iz pamyati. Pogruzhayas v eti sudby, my uznaem bolshe o proshlom i zadumyvaemsya o prirode vlasti, straha i bespraviya — voprosah, kotorye, uvy, ostayutsya aktualnymi.