Memories

Pavel Nikolaevich Milyukov (1859-1943)-a famous scientist-historian and publicist, a major politician, a brilliant speaker, one of the creators of the Party of Constitutional Democrats and the chairman of its Central Committee, the leader of the opposition in the State Duma, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government, one of the ideological leaders of the Russian emigration. “If politics were a chess game, and people were wooden figures, he would be a brilliant politician,” wrote his eternal opponent P.B. Struve about Milyukov.
"Memoirs" Milyukov really resemble the analysis of chess parties, made at the level of the grandmaster. And the parties of the most interesting - after all, the author happened to be in the epicenter of such key events for the history of Russia as the rise of the revolutionary movement at the beginning of the 20th century, the ideological formation of Russian liberalism, the emergence and development of the parliamentary system, the fall of the autocracy and the creation of a temporary government. Much in his book has not lost its relevance to this day