Memoirs of General Pavel Grigorievich Kurlov, who held senior government posts during the reign of Nicholas II, under Stolypin - Comrade Minister of the Interior, who was in charge of the affairs of the police department, in the First World War - Governor-General of the Baltic provinces, a man who survived the Russian revolution, the abdication of the emperor, the death of him and his family, imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress and Vyborg solitary confinement, finally an emigrant, - these are eyewitness testimonies to whom many secret springs of the events of that time were known. Memoirs are printed according to the Berlin edition of 1923.