Dmitry Nikolaevich Sverbeev (1799-1874), nobleman, retired diplomat, cordial host of a Moscow salon, is known primarily for his memoirs, created in the last years of his life. In them he vividly and in detail describes the events of the 19th century. and his many contemporaries who lived at that time, accompanying his memories with excursions into the history of the 18th century. The memoirist attaches special importance to the characterization of the people of his era, and therefore the reader is presented with a gallery of beautifully executed verbal portraits of his contemporaries: the families of the Obreskovs, Kikins, Yazykovs, Norovs, Golokhvastovs, I. Kapodistrias, F.Ts. Lagarpa, A.I. Herzen, V.F. Odoevsky, N.I. Turgeneva, A.S. Shishkova and many others. etc. The memoirs are supplemented with materials from the personal archive of the Sverbeevs. For a wide range of readers interested in history Russia XVIII-XIX centuries

CONTENTS: [D.A. Khomyakov]. A FEW WORDS ABOUT DMITRY NIKOLAEVICH SVERBEEV (5).[S.D. Sverbeeva] PREFACE (12). MY NOTES [from the author] (15). Volume I (17). Volume II (247). ADDITIONS ESSAYS AND NOTES Notes on the Patriotic War of 1812 (461). Moscow fires of 1812 (461) .Moscow clergy and Metropolitan Platon in September 1812 (474). Note on the death of Vereshchagin (483). Obituary [M.P. Dokhturova and A.P. Obolensky] (486).N.I. Turgenev (490). Memories of A.I. Herzen (502). To my memories of Shishkov (509). Memories of Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev (518). A note on the attitude of Emperor Alexander Pavlovich to Catholicism (533). A few words about the December rebellion of 1825 (537). Death and funeral Prince V.F. Odoevsky and my memories of him (547). Memories of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (556). [Memories of the death of N.V. Gogol] (560). FRAGMENTS Fragment 1 [about the Sverbeev family] (563). Fragment 2 [about Ya.F. Skaryatin] (564). Fragment 3 [about Annenkov] (565). Fragment 4 [about S.D. Kiselev] (566). Fragment 5 [about Moscow in the late 1810s] (567). Fragment 6 [about N.A. Norov] (568). Fragment 7 [about the nicknames of the book. V.P. Golitsyn and other Golitsyns] (569). Fragment 8 [about A.K. Kikina and M.V. Obreskova] (570). Fragment 9 [about I.A. Pukalov] (571). Fragment 10 [about the trip from Revel to Berlin and Lubeck and meeting with the Schletzer family] (572). Fragment 11 [about the road from Lubeck to Hamburg] (578). Fragment 12 [about A.V. Bogdanovsky and N.A. Ilyina] (579). Fragment 13 [about traveling around Belgium] (580). Fragment 14 [about political events in France in the early 1820s] (581). Fragment 15 [about I.A. Pukalov in Paris] (583). Fragment 16 [about French politics] (584). Fragment 17 [about the cities of Volyn] (587). Fragment 18 [discussion about freedom and slavery] (588). Fragment 19 [about peasant marriages] (590). Fragment 20 [about the history of the Novosilsky region and opinions on land ownership] (591). Fragment 21 [about the village of Mikhailovskoye] (596). Fragment 22 [about the land holdings of the Sverbeevs and their neighbors] (597). Fragment 23 [ about Sverbeev’s friends in the Dolgoruky house] (598). Fragment 24 [about difficulties with the will of D.N. Sverbeeva] (600). Fragment 25 [about I.I. Raevsky, nicknamed “Zephyr”] (601). Fragment 26 [from the story about P.A. Nashchokin] (601). Fragment 27 [about the habits of Russian diplomats] (602). Fragment 28 [about events in Switzerland] (603). Fragment 29 [about I.A. Kapodistrias] (606). Fragment 30 [from letters about the death of A.I. Herzen] (631).Fragment 31 [to memories of A.S. Shishkov] (633). Fragment 32 [about the Decembrist uprising] (638). APPENDICES.V. Batshev. Dmitry Nikolaevich Sverbeev: Sketch of a biography (643).B.P. Kraevsky. To the Moscow addresses of the author of “Notes” (662). T.V. Medvedev. Dmitry Nikolaevich Sverbeev as a mirror of Russian memoirs (675). NOTES (699). Index of names (873). Index of geographical names and individual attractions (922). List of illustrations (937). List of abbreviations (939).