The book of memoirs of the daughter of the outstanding Russian reformer Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (1862-1911) tells about the most important years of her father's life. Pre-revolutionary Russia, tormented by terrorists; hopes for the salvation of the greatest state and the death at the hands of a bandit fanatic.. Family, intimate details, so well known to Maria Petrovna Bock (Stolypina), add special, unique colors to the portrait of P. A. Stolypin. For the most complete display of P. A. Stolypin's enormous reform activities, the book includes an appendix in which the reader can get acquainted with the documents: Decree and Laws of the Russian Empire, speeches by P. A. Stolypin in the State Duma and the State Council on land land use.