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Catherine the Great Ekaterina Dashkova Anna Bunina Nadezhda Durova Elena Gan (Hahn) Evdokiia Rostopchina NadezhdaTeplova Zinaida Volkonskaia Sofiia Zakrevskaia Anna Barykova Maric Bashkirstseva Elena Blavatskai Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia Elizaveta Kologrivova Avdotia Panaeva Karolina Pavlova Nadezhda Sokhanskaia Evbeniia Tur Iuliia Zhadovskaia Elena Guro Mirra Lokhvitskaia Marko Vovchok Cheubina de Gabriak Vera Figner Adelaida Gertsyk Sofiia Parnok Poliksena Solov'eva Anastasiis Verbitskaia Mariia Petrovykh Elizaveta Polonskaia Frida Vigdorova Nina Berberova Lidlia Chukovskaia Nataliia Il'ina Lidia Ginzburg Galina Kuznetsova Marietta Shaginian Gertruda Vakar Margarita Aliger Bella Akhmadulina Nataliia Baranskaia Natal'ia Gorbanevskaia I. Grekova Inna Lisnianskaia Valentina Dmitrieva Ol'ga Forsh Zinaida Gippius (Hippius) Anna Akbmatova Anna Barkova Olga Berggol'ts Vera Inber Vera Panova Elizaveta Mnatsakanova Iunna Morits Marina Palei Liudmila Petrushevskaia Ol'ga Sedakova Ol'ga Shvarts Tatiana Tolstaia Larisa Vasilleva Ruf' Zernova

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