The text of memoirs of Privy Councilor N.A. First published in full on the manuscript. Kachalov - a representative of an old noble family, a prominent statesman of the middle of the second half of the 19th century, expands ideas about the system of state and political transformations of the period of great reforms, zemstvo activity, the history of the fleet and maritime education in Russia, the activities of the customs department and the practice of transformations in this area in the 1870s - 1880s, life, life and culture of the noble province (from the end of the 18th century), etc.