Vladimir Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician, was known to favour monuments as an instrument of propaganda. Having won the revolution, the Council of People’s Commissars decreed to install monuments to the great people of the past - Spartacus, Brutus, Razin, Khalturin - onto the squares and parks of Russian cities. Yet out of 50 names in the Lenin’s list, there was only one woman - Sophia Perovskaya.