About the book: 2024 / With this book, the publishing house continues a series of memoirs of wonderful people whose fate, due to various circumstances, was connected with St. Petersburg, the brilliant capital of a mysterious country, great and pathetic at the same time. The book offered to the reader’s attention has already been published in German, English, French and Czech, has been reprinted many times and has become a pan-European bestseller. Its author, “a woman with five passports,” recalls the time when she was a citizen of five states at the same time, about her amazing fate (father - a major statesman, an associate of P. A. Stolypin; mother - nee Princess Vyazemskaya, a sophisticated aristocrat, who had the difficult fate of raising five children in a foreign land; beloved sister "Missy" - Maria Vasilchikova, the famous author of the "Berlin Diary" ) and about herself, her personal experience of the Resistance, she ingenuously talks about her love (her husband is a German officer, the direct heir of Prince Clemens von Metternich, famous throughout Europe). The life path of Princess Tatyana Illarionovna Metternich (née Vasilchikova) is the embodiment of the best traditions of the Russian aristocracy. For a wide range of readers.