This event entered all textbooks on criminalistics as the most daring and unexpected in the history of robberies of the XX century. In one of the hot July days of 1908, a small group of three policemen appeared in the port of Baku. They proceeded to the steamer “Nikolai I”, which was about to set sail and demanded to let them on board under the guise of checking the documents of the personnel.

Some scholars believe that not only men, but also a woman, who skillfully concealed her gender, sat on the throne of St. Peter in the Vatican. It is believed that in the ninth century this woman performed the duties of the Pope for about two and a half years. According to the sketches of some authors of the Middle Ages, the girl was elected to this post under the name John VIII after the death of Leo IV - in 855.

Birth name Franziska Schanzkowska. According to the generally accepted version, the entire imperial family was shot on July 17, 1918. According to Anna's version, it was she, Princess Anastasia Nikolaevna, who managed to survive and escape.

The story of Sonya Zolotoy (GOLD) Ruchka, perhaps the most famous Russian criminal, is as mysterious as she herself. And it's no wonder - Sofia Ivanovna Sheindlya-Sura Leibovna Bluvshtein (that was actually the name of the swindler) falsified everything with her own hands. And in this the woman was miraculously good. Although her actions were not always ruled by passion for money. It turned out that love for men was just as much to blame.