About the book: year / The book covers almost an entire century, a century of historical upheavals that completely turned the life of this noble family upside down. Quiet years on an estate in the south of the Russian Empire, life in St. Petersburg, trips to Italy, are replaced by a string of tragic events: the First World War, the Civil War, exile, the Second World War and difficult emigration. The reader will appreciate with what amazing fortitude and truly Christian humility the author accepts all the trials that befell the family.