The memoirs of Countess Maria Eduardovna Kleinmichel, a famous representative of the “high society”, the owner of a political salon in St. Petersburg, where politicians, diplomats, royal dignitaries and members of the royal family gathered on the eve of the First World War, open unknown pages from the life of the Russian aristocracy under the last Romanovs. Despite the fact that decades have passed since the publication of the book, and excerpts from it have been repeatedly quoted by historians and publicists, the memoirs of M. E. Kleinmichel have never been published in full in our country. For persons over 12 years of age.