Memoirs of Mikhail Andreevich Svechin, a Russian lieutenant general who lived a long and difficult life. "The notes that I offer to the reader provide a description of the events that have taken place in our homeland during my life since the end of the last century. Throwing back a lot, I dwelled on the events that particularly crashed into my consciousness. I tried to give them an assessment of how they seemed to me, a contemporary who saw and experienced them." - M.A. Svechin