About the book: 2011 / Elena Rzhevskaya is one of the most courageous women of our era, a woman of amazing external and internal beauty. She went to the front during the terrible events of the Great Patriotic War - the Battle of Rzhev and reached Berlin. Elena Rzhevskaya participated in the search for Hitler, in identifying the Fuhrer and Eva Braun and in investigating the circumstances of his suicide. Zhukov called her memories of that time one of the best. But Rzhevskaya writes not only about the war. A native Muscovite, she describes with extraordinary grace and love the pre- and post-war capital, the habits of the inhabitants of the old courtyards, and the school of those years. Elena Rzhevskaya, a woman with an unusually sharp mind, has that magnificent style and sense of the Word that makes her memoirs an invaluable contribution to Russian literature.