My Memories. Under the Rule of Three Kings.

Annotation to the book "My Memories. Under the Rule of Three Tsars. 4th Edition" by E. A. Naryshkina: The book contains for the first time the memoirs of the last chamberlain of the imperial court, Elizaveta Alekseyevna Naryshkina (1838-1928), practically unknown to the Russian reader. They capture Russian life (especially at court) in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, and provide information on a number of important events of that time (the assassination of Alexander II, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, etc.). They also vividly express the personality of the author - a philanthropist, a person with literary abilities (the text includes her correspondence with I. A. Goncharov). Read more...