Memories. 1790-1867

The memoirs of the prominent statesman of the Russian Empire Andrei Mikhailovich Fadeev (1789-1867) are a valuable source and a lively multifaceted picture of Russian life of the XIX century.
The action unfolds in the capital"s cities and in the expanses of the empire - in Novorossia, the Volga region, in the only annexed Transcaucasia. The scenes described with inquisitive interest from the life of ordinary people of different peoples of the country are adjacent to the notorious assessments of higher society.
Among the actors are emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I, M. S. Vorontsov and P. D. Kiselev, accidentally met by Fadeev in Chisinau A. S. Pushkin and grandson of the author S. Yu. Vitte.
divided by decades of the era in the life of the empire, the times of its heyday and decline, as it were, are found on the pages of this book. Thanks to this publication, the memoirs of A. M. Fadeev will become available to all the history of Russia