Memoirs of Countess Pototskaya. 1794-1820

The daughter of Count Tyshkevich, the grandchildren of the last Polish king, the wife of the senator, Anna Pototskaya (1779-1867) was intended for the role that she played in Polish and French society. Beautiful, bright, smart, courageous, she loved her unhappy homeland very much and, without losing hope for her revival, remained devoted to Napoleon, with whom she connected these hopes.
Its memories ended with the first marriage, in 1820, and cover the entire period of Napoleon’s reign and Poland’s participation in European wars. The characteristics of Napoleon, Maria Louise, Alexander I, Countess Valevskaya, Murat, Talleyrand, Grand Duke of Konstantin, Novosiltsev and many other representatives of the restless era, about whom the countess so bitterly speaks of the epilogue in the epilogue are curious and unusual. , desperate screams mixed there, in this bottomless depth! "