From my memories

Varvara Fedorovna Golitsin (1854-1931) was born in the family of the Kharkov leader of the nobility of Prince Fedor Grigoryevich Golitsyn. Even in her youth, she discovered a passion for traveling, making trips to Europe and the farthest corners of Russia. In 1876, the 22-year-old princess married a young general who served at the headquarters of the commander of the tsarist troops in the Caucasus, Sergey Dukhovsky, later Governor General of the Amur and Turkestan regions. From now on, the passion for travels found application, and the Dukhovskaya accompanied her husband on all his trips, no matter how distant and exotic they were.
She even became a participant in two round -the -world travels! During the Russo-Turkish War of 1888, she was in Transcaucasia and was a direct witness to the events that took place there. The Atlantic, the Japanese Sea, crossed the equatorial belt. She wrote about these and other events in her diaries, and subsequently decided, for the purpose of charity, to publish in the form of memoirs, which first came out in St. Petersburg in 1900 and have not been reprinted since then.
This charming woman, whose firmness of the spirit of which could be envied by more than one man, brings to her notes everything he sees, hears and feels. Humor, self -irony, observation, and - inevitable at such a mind - the causality of the formulations complements the picture and allow you to see the live and the concubines of the Turkish sultan, and the crowd at the World Exhibition in Paris, and the streets of Saigon, Tbilisi, Nagasaki ...
Varvara Dukhovskaya survived the revolution and died in Leningrad in 1931