The book you will read is unique: it contains memories of the life, character, habits of the Russian tsars from Peter I to Alexander II, in addition, it also contains a story about some significant events during their reign. In the first part you will find the memoirs of Ivan Brykin, who lived 115 years (1706-1821), eighty of which he was the caretaker of the royal estate near Moscow, where he saw all the Russian emperors who ruled in the 18th - early 19th centuries. In the second part you can read the story of A.G. Orlova about Catherine II and the abduction of Princess Tarakanova. The third part contains memoirs collected from the letters of P.Ya. Chaadaev, about the era of Alexander I, about the war of 1812 and secret societies in Russia. In the fourth part, you are offered a documentary story by the historian T.R. Sviridov about Nikolai I. The book is equipped with a large number of illustrations, which makes the story especially interesting.