Diaries, memories, letters of Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich. 1898-1917

Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich (1879–1956)-cousin of Nicholas II, Major General of the Emperor, the younger brother of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, who proclaimed himself in 1924 by the emperor of Russia in exile, the husband of the famous ballerina M. Kyshesinskaya. His diaries contain descriptions of the outbreak of the First World War, its individual operations, backstage intrigues within the Imperial House of the Romanovs, rivalry among tsarist generals and senior military officials,
Details of the murder of G. Razputin, the political crisis on the eve of the revolution in Russia, the process of renunciation of Nicholas II. In his memoirs, the Grand Duke talks about the features of military service in the elite units of the Horse Artillery Life Guards in the pre-war years.
The text is first published in the full version, with detailed comments. Archive photographs are presented as illustrations.
Compiled by V. M. Khrustalev, V. M. Osin