Time is inexorably outliving old valuable books written by eyewitnesses of the formidable fateful days when the fate of Russia was being decided. The notes of Rodzianko, the chairman of the last State Duma, are undoubtedly interesting. Their interest is enhanced by the fact that Rodzianko worked on his notes for a long time and at different periods of his life gave different texts of them, taking into account not so much the volume of his historical knowledge as the environment, place and time of publication and printing of notes.