An amazing biography of L. N. Tolstoy’s daughter Alexandra. During the First World War - a nurse at the front. After the revolution - Plenipotentiary Commissioner of Yasnaya Polyana, curator of the Estate Museum. Then - a prisoner of Lubyanka. Her camp notes are a rare eyewitness account. The second part of the book is a story about Japan, where A. L. Tolstaya went in 1929 to give lectures about her father. Memories of America, where A. L. Tolstaya lived since 1931, where she created the Tolstoy Foundation. The book contains vivid portraits of major historical figures with whom the author's paths crossed: Lunacharsky, Kalinin, Stalin, etc. Published by: Alexandra Tolstaya. Daughter. Publishing house "Zarya" (Canada) 1979