The main place in this book is made up of the memoirs of Tatyana Evgenievna Botkina, the daughter of the life physician of the last Russian Tsar Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin, who with three more servants, remaining faithful to the Royal Family to the end, was shot with them in Yekaterinburg. Through the chronicle of family life, clothed in a lively and exciting story, a tragic era looms in the narrative of I.E. Botkina, from which we are separated by the century, the events of the life of the Royal Family, evidence of contemporaries, historical events. Many documents and photographs are published for the first time.