The author of the book, V.V. Shulgin, is a wonderful writer and publicist, a major political figure in pre-revolutionary Russia, the leader of the right in the State Duma, a participant in the February Revolution, who accepted abdication from the hands of Nicholas II. Then - the organizer and ideologist of the White movement. Since 1920 - in exile. Arrested in 1944 and sentenced to 25 years, released in 1956. Attended as a guest at the XXII Congress of the CPSU. This edition includes: the book “Years” written in prison (about the work of the State Duma), as well as later memories of the Civil war and White emigration, about Denikin, Wrangel, Kutepov. Shulgin smartly, harshly, vividly testifies to the tragic contradictions of Russian life that are still relevant today - about the omnipotence of the vile and the death of the best, about the revolution and the Jewish question, about the stupidity of patriots and the treason of democrats, about the revival of science and the end of the Empire