My Memories. Under the Power of Three Tsars

This book for the first time collects the practically unknown to the Russian reader memoirs of the last lady-in-waiting of the imperial court, Elizaveta Alexeyevna Naryshkina (1838–1928). They capture Russian life (especially court life) in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century, and provide information about a number of significant events of that time (the assassination of Alexander II, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, etc.). The personality of the author is also vividly expressed – a benefactor, a person with literary abilities (the text includes her correspondence with I. A. Goncharov).