Publisher's abstract: “Alexandra Viktorovna Bogdanovich was known throughout St. Petersburg, located on the three highest floors of the “table of ranks”; ministers and governors, metropolitans and ladies-in-waiting, diplomats and writers gathered in her hospitable salon. For thirty-three years, Bogdanovich painstakingly wrote down in her diary everything that seemed worthy of attention to her, although she did not pretend to be a historiographer of the last three emperors. Despite the lack of a deep political analysis of what was happening, she was able to record in sufficient detail and with a high degree of reliability many events that took place in the period from 1879 to 1912." The index of names is inserted as a separate chapter. Errors are possible in the Index of names, since special verification with was not carried out in text. The page numbers of the printed original in the index... have been removed.