Moya russkaya zhizn'

Memuary velikosvetskoy damy Marii Sergeevny Baryatinskoy, prapravnuchki fel'dmarshala Suvorova, zheny fligel'-ad'yutanta Nikolaya II, Anatoliya Baryatinskogo, v mel'chayshih detalyah vosstanavlivayut tonkosti pridvornogo etiketa i ceremoniala. Ona vspominaet torzhestvennost' koronacii i prazdnovaniya 300-letiya Doma Romanovyh, Evropu nachala veka. Baryatinskaya nachinaet povestvovanie s opisaniya smerti Aleksandra III i vosshestviya na prestol Nikolaya II, rasskazyvaet o Rasputine i ubiystve Stolypina, nachale voyny i o tom, kak organizovyvala rabotu voennogo gospitalya v Kieve. Mariya Sergeevna berezhno sohranyala zapisi o vazhnyh i mimoletnyh proisshestviyah, cenneyshie svidetel'stva, polnye nepovtorimogo ocharovaniya uteryannogo raya.