Memoirs of the high-society lady Maria Sergeevna Baryatinskaya, great-great-granddaughter of Field Marshal Suvorov, wife of the adjutant wing of Nicholas II, Anatoly Baryatinsky, restore the subtleties of court etiquette and ceremony in great detail. She recalls the solemnity of the coronation and celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, Europe at the beginning of the century. Baryatinskaya begins the story with a description of the death of Alexander III and the accession to the throne of Nicholas II, talks about Rasputin and the murder of Stolypin, the beginning of the war and how she organized the work of the military hospital in Kyiv. Maria Sergeevna carefully kept records of important and fleeting incidents, valuable evidence full of the unique charm of a lost paradise.