Diplomats in Stalin"s Moscow. Diaries of the Chief of Protocol 1920-1934

In the center of the book is the bright figure of the diplomat Dmitry Florinsky, unusual, tragic and almost forgotten. His fate abounded in steep turns: the former tsarist diplomat worked in Europe and the United States, joined the white movement, then moved to the Reds and headed the protocol department of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKLI) He became famous as the "Creator of the Red Protocol" and left behind unique diary entries, which allowed to recreate a wide picture of the diplomatic life of Moscow in the 1920s-early 1930s. , tell how foreign diplomats worked and lived then. They performed state affairs, started mistresses and lovers, scandalized, gossiped, outraged by the monitoring and provocations of the Chekists, fell into curly and dramatic stories. Florinsky became one of the first victims of the Great Terror to indicate a new era in Soviet history