"Grandmother" - Elizaveta Petrovna Yankova (1768-1861), granddaughter of the historian V.N. Tatishchev, nee Rimskaya-Korsakova, connected by family ties with the Shcherbatovs, Shakhovskys, Arkharovs, Nashchokins, Saltykovs, Vyazemskys and many others. She constantly lived in Moscow and died at the age of 93, vividly remembered family traditions that reached the time of Peter I, told them with amazing details, remembering even years and numbers - was a living chronicle of the entire XVIII and half of the XIX century. All this was recorded for her by her grandson Dmitry Dmitrievich Blagovo (1827-1897, as a monk Archimandrite Pimen). "Grandmother's Stories" were first published in 1878-1880. in the Russian Bulletin; in 1885 they came out as a separate publication. In 1986, Syntax Publishing House issued a reprint of them. The publication of Literary Monuments is the first scientific publication of the book. Here, for the first time, biographical information about D.D. Blagovo.