Memuary znatnoy damy. Put' ot freyliny do emigrantki

Grafinya Mariya Eduardovna Kleynmihel' - svetskaya dama iz vysshego obschestva Rossiyskoy imperii, perezhivshaya za svoyu dolguyu zhizn' treh imperatorov i lichno znavshaya mnogih lyudey, ostavivshih sled v istorii. Proydya put' ot yunoy freyliny do pozhiloy hozyayki peterburgskogo salona, po-druzheski prinimavshey u sebya aristokratov, ministrov, generalov i diplomatov, ona okazalas' prichastna ko mnogim taynam politicheskoy zhizni. Ey bylo uzhe za 70 let, kogda 1917 god navsegda izmenil zhizn' v Rossii. Okazavshis' v emigracii, grafinya Kleynmihel' sochla svoim dolgom napisat' vospominaniya o "potonuvshem mire" Rossiyskoy imperii, ved' ey bylo chto vspomnit'.