Carl Маннергейм - one of the known political figures of the XX century. Lieutenant-general of the Russian emperor's army, after revolution 1917 year he hurried to Finland, where became the field marshal of the Finland army, and then president of this country.Under the direction of Маннергейма the powerful defensive line adopted by his name was built in Finland, - in Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940 she substantially hampered offensive To the red army. In the years of Great Patriotic war Finland came forward on the side of Germany against the USSR, but in 1944 concluded the peaceful acceding to Soviet Union and beginning military operations against Germany.In the remembrances Carl Маннергейм describes service at the court of the last Russian emperor Nikolay II and in the Russian army, revolution in Russia, not simple relations of Finland and USSR in intermilitary time, Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940th and war of Finland with the USSR in 1941-1944. The special attention is spared to imperial aspirations of Russia and USSR, and also place of the RUSSIA-USSR in European politics.