S carem i bez carya

Vladimir Nikolaevich Voeykov - priblizhennyy Nikolaya II, dvorcovyy komendant, general-mayor svity. V memuarah opisyvayutsya sobytiya, predshestvovavshie Fevral'skoy revolyucii, a zatem ves' 1917 god i ego posledstviya dlya avtora, strany i carya. Intrigi vneshney politiki i cepochka sobytiy, kotoraya privela k Pervoy mirovoy i uchastiyu v ney Rossii; pridvornaya sueta i zavist'; Petergof, Carskoe Selo, Livadiya i byt carskoy sem'i; obe revolyucii pod pridirchivym vzglyadom pridvornogo; odnovremenno strashnye i s tonkim chuvstvom yumora opisannye mytarstva Voeykova "v begah". Grustnoe, no uvlekatel'noe povestvovanie. V knige, pomimo carskoy sem'i, figuriruyut takie izvestnye lichnosti, kak Rodzyanko, Rasputin, Vyrubova, Milyukov, Kerenskiy, Brusilov i drugie. Vsecelo predannyy imperatorskoy sem'e ubezhdennyy monarhist i storonnik stol' populyarnyh nyne "tradicionnyh cennostey", Voeykov vyzyvaet to iskrennee voshischenie, to sochuvstvie, to razdrazhenie.