The owner of a fashion salon during the decline of the Russian Empire, the wife of General E.V. Bogdanovich - that’s who Alexandra Viktorovna Bogdanovich was, the author of the diaries that make up this book. Depicting in the brochures they published the harmonious union of the wise Tsar with the God-bearing people, the Bogdanovichs, with all their declarative ultra-patriotism, collected scandalous gossip from the high society backstage - evidence of the petty, momentary passions that permeated high society. In the diaries of A. V. Bogdanovich, which are certainly interesting, sometimes “glamorous,” all three Autocrats she knew appear not as the Anointed of God, but as ordinary people, invested with power by historical accident. Without casting a shadow on the Emperors themselves, these diaries clearly and mercilessly convey a picture of the collapse of the monarchical worldview and the inevitability of the tragic collapse of the Monarchy.