About the book: 2017 / "Peers of the Difficult Century" - a book of memoirs by Olga Sergeevna Lodyzhenskaya - is being published for the first time. The author vividly and authentically describes the joyful and tragic events that their small noble “female” family experienced, which in the most terrible years of the last century was left without a breadwinner and protector in the face of wars, persecution, hunger, cold and poverty. Another vivid evidence of the era, another example of amazing fortitude, courage, optimism and love that conquers everything.