“Ten Years in Exile” is a story by the famous French writer Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) about Napoleon and how, fleeing his tyranny, she crossed all of Europe in the summer of 1812, at the height of hostilities, in order to get to England through Austria, Russia and Sweden. The translation is equipped with detailed comments, which not only explain the realities mentioned in the text, but also restore the sources of Madame de Stael’s information about Russia and the circle of her Russian acquaintances. The book has been translated and commented by a leading scholar employee of the IVGI RSUH Vera Arkadyevna Milchina.