About the book: 2001 / “...For many years in a row, whenever I touched on materials about the life of Moscow at the beginning of the last century, I came across this name everywhere - Nadezhda Petrovna Lamanova; they wrote about her as a person quite famous in the life of Russia. At first I passed this name through the filter of my memory as the name of a person who had not done anything heroic in our history. What do I care if Lamanova was “competed by the superbly trained craftswomen of the city of Lyon - Lyamina, Anais and other sorcerers of women’s clothing.” But many years have passed, my opinion about this woman has been enriched, and now, on the contrary, I myself began to look for her name - wherever possible. Indeed, this woman is worth a closer look.…»