Long time the "Handwritten messages" of empress Catherine II were kept under the vulture of "Special secrecy", imposed on them by her son, emperor by Paul. However he let to close friend, prince to Alexander to Borisovich Куракину, to take off a copy from "Messages". A few lists walking about hands already in the reign of Alexander I and Nikolay I (them appeared afterwards, in particular, knew historian А.И.Тургенев, Н.М.Карамзин and А.С.Pushkin).In 1859 considerable part of memoirs of empress was published in London of А.И.Герценом. They produced the real furore on all Europe and were translated into a few languages (an original is written in French).At the beginning the XX century of composition of Catherine Emperor's Academy of sciences decided to publish. Getting permission to work in the closed archives, academician А.Н.Пыпин managing edition found out the originals of "Messages" empresses are in full. "London edition, as I was now assured, gives the half of whole "Messages" and barely one third of trainload of historical remembrances barely. - Пыпин gave a report in a letter to the president of Academy to the grand duke to Konstantin to Konstantinovich. - the Historical messages of empress in their complete composition present a precious monument, remarkable both on historical maintenance and on deep psychological to interest. Finally, this personal history of Catherine II. there is at the same time remarkable literary work glittering a mind and observation"."Messages" were published in 1907 in language of original in the 12th volume of compositions of empress on the basis of authentic manuscripts. There is a publishing house А.С in the same year.Суворина produced their Russian translation.