A book opens one of pages of tragic history of a force Russian emigration. From the historical depths of two centuries - end of XIX and greater part of XX - a memorialist reports the priceless living certificates of былого to the reader. Поместный way of life from childhood of author, Pavlovskiy institute, school of a stage mastery in Saint Petersburg, first actor experiments, happy beginning of domestic life - all, that it was mercilessly wiped off by a scale tearing down of Russian life in 1917. An author recreates realities of the Russian tragedy of the XX century : heavy ways of rescue of family of naval officer and his surroundings in Russia overcame by revolutionary chaos, irreparable losses and irrevocable emigrant roads from Kerch through Бизерту to Marseille and Paris, painful mastering of vital space in a stranger country.Memoirs of Н.С. Аленниковой is complemented by послесловием and comments of son of author, Rostislav Vsevolodovich Дона, becoming the large French diplomat.A book is counted on the wide circle of the readers, interested in home history, researchers of a particular region, guides, genealogists, researchers of историко-культурного aspect of Russian foreignness, and also on state and social and political figures, scientific, participating to forming new spiritual values of regenerating Russia.