The collection includes memories of the everyday and cultural life of Poles in St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg as a whole in the first half of the 19th century. The memoirs of O.A. Przetslavsky, scattered across various pre-revolutionary magazines, are first put together; memoirs of S. Moravsky, T. Bobrovsky and A.T. Kirkor were first translated into Russian. Among the characters in the memoirs are writers O.I. Senkovsky, F.V. Bulgarin, A. Mitskevich, A.S. Pushkin, statesmen N.N. Novosiltsov, A.S. Shishkov, A.A. Zakrevsky, K. Drutsky Lyubetskiy, artists A. Orlovsky and Yu. Oleshkevich, pianist M. Shimanovskaya and many others. other.