About the book: 1991 / "Memoirs" belongs to the pen of M. F. Kamenskaya (1817–1898), a representative of the illustrious Tolstoy family, daughter of the artist and famous medalist F. P. . Tolstoy. A fascinating story about episodes of the memoirist’s personal life is interspersed with a narration about her meetings with remarkable figures of the Pushkin era, including Pushkin, Gogol, Krylov, N.V. Kukolnik, Bulgarin, A.N. Olenin, Tolstoy “The American”, I.P. Martos, M.I. Glinka, P.K. Klodt, Bryullov and many others. The “Appendix” contains the writer’s story, as well as memoirs of her father and daughter.