With this book, the publishing house continues a series of memoirs of wonderful people, due to their fate due to various circumstances associated with St. Petersburg, the brilliant capital of a mysterious country, great and miserable at the same time. The book offered to the reader has already been published in German, English, French and Czech, repeatedly reprinted and became a pan-European bestseller. Its author - "a woman with five passports," recalls the time when she was a subject of five states at the same time, about her amazing fate (father - a major statesman, associate of P. A. Stolypin; mother - nee Princess Vyazemskaya, a sophisticated aristocrat, who had a hard time raising five children in a foreign land; Missy's beloved sister - Maria Vasilchikova, the famous author of the Berlin Diary) and about herself, her personal experience of the Resistance, ingenuously tells about her love (her husband is a German officer, direct heir to Prince Clemens von Metternich, known throughout Europe).