The next and last volume of 7-volume "Memoirs" by Count D.A. Milyutin, historian, field marshal, minister of war of Emperor Alexander II, covers the period from 1868 to early 1873 and contains valuable information about the foreign and domestic policy of the autocracy, the international situation (including the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, the formation of the German Empire, the expansion of the borders of the Russian Empire in Central Asia, etc.), the course of military reforms and the sharp struggle at the top.