A documentary and journalistic study by Larisa Vasilieva is devoted to the fates of those women whose husbands were leaders of the Soviet state. From Nadezhda Krupskaya to Raisa Gorbacheva, the author draws portraits of the “wives of the Kremlin,” describing their characters, actions, and the complicated twists of their life paths. What were these companions of the USSR’s top officials like? Was their life behind the Kremlin walls happy? Why were some of them arrested or sent into exile? A special place in the audio book is given to those who weren’t wives in the usual sense, but acted as comrades who entered the Kremlin corridors: Larisa Reisner, Aleksandra Kollontai, Galina Semyonova. The audio book includes unique archival materials, personal impressions, conversations with witnesses, and memories from contemporaries.