The book is dedicated to the fate of a large family repatriated from France to their homeland in the post-war years. Here, the descendants of many Russian and Georgian aristocratic clans, brought up on ideological and moral values ​ ​ alien to the socialist society, faced complex, sometimes dramatic and even tragic life twists and turns. However, they perceived the trials, repressions and hardships that fell to their lot in a Christian way with humility and dignity. The author, one of the five offspring of the family, tells both about the history of his own growing up and formation, and about the milestone events in the life of the state, assessing them from the standpoint of an Orthodox person and a convinced monarchist. The reader will see a gallery of portraits of our contemporaries - famous public figures and luminaries from among writers, artists, politicians and clergymen, both "in the Fatherland and in the dispersion of the present."