An amazing biography of the daughter of L. N. Tolstoy Alexandra. In the First World War - sister of mercy at the front. After the revolution - plenipotentiary commissar of Yasnaya Polyana, curator of the Estate Museum. Then - the prisoner of the Lubyanka. Her camp records are rare eyewitness accounts. The second part of the book is a story about Japan, where A. L. Tolstaya left in 1929 with lectures about her father. Memories of America, where A. L. Tolstaya lived since 1931, where she created the Tolstoy Foundation. The book gives vivid portraits of major historical figures with whom the author's paths intersected: Lunacharsky, Kalinin, Stalin, etc.