Memoirs of a Noble Lady: The Path from Courtier to Emigrant. From the Sunken World

Countess Maria Eduardovna Kleinmichel — a socialite from the high society of the Russian Empire, who survived three emperors and personally knew many people who left their mark in history during her long life. Having traversed the path from a young courtier to an elderly host of a Petersburg salon, where she welcomed aristocrats, ministers, generals, and diplomats, she became involved in many secrets of political life. She was already over 70 years old when 1917 forever changed life in Russia. Finding herself in exile, Countess Kleinmichel considered it her duty to write memoirs about the «sunken world» of the Russian Empire, for she had much to remember.