Memories: From the life of the State Council of 1907–1917

Memoirs of Professor David Davidovich Grimm (1864 1941) "from the life of the State Council of 1907-1911" For a long time were not known to researchers. Valuable records were discovered only in the late 1990s. When analyzing manuscripts in the National Archive of Estonia in Tartu.
memoirs were written in 1929 1930. in Estonia. They cover a wide range of plots related to the history of the authorities of the highest state power of the Russian Empire, parliamentarism, and the struggle for academic freedoms. They draw portraits of outstanding political and public figures (Su. Witte, V.I. Kokovtsov, L.F. Koni, P.A. Stolypin, V.I. Vernadsky, M.M. Kovalevsky, etc), reveal the features of the worldview imperial elites against the backdrop of a turning point of history (revolution of 1905-1907, the First World War, revolutionary events of 1917)
The publication is designed for specialists and all those who are interested in the history of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century