1917. U and after. The assignment of the Russian prince (1880-1943)

The book "1917. Before and after "the author has never seen. He died long before the publication of even his first works. But the life that Prince Vladimir Andreevich Drutskaya-Sokolinsky lived is so tragic, so filled with vivid events and falls on the turning point of the Russian state that they turned from family notes into evidence of the era are necessary for the new Russia.
His business was continued by his son Andrei Vladimirovich, who from an early age listened to his father’s memories of the country that they lost, and when the opportunity appeared, with the help of the Russian publisher from the city of Orel, he began to fulfill his dream. Thus appeared a three -volume: "in the service of the Fatherland" (notes of the Russian governor) in 1994, peaceful memory is blessed (Notes of the Russian nobleman) in 1996 and "My joy and sadness" (Notes of the Russian emigrant) in 2000. Thus, the author’s memories accommodated a lifetime.
Inquisitive readers met with the life of a poor family of an employee, a wonderful description of St. Petersburg to great shocks, participated in the celebrations on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov House in Kostroma. Found themselves in the midst of the event of the first imperialist war and were imbued with the horror of the first after the coup. And now, together with the author, once a successful person: Governor of Minsk, vice-governor of Mogilev, and now an emigrant rejected by his country is in a foreign land. Like a sidecake of bread of a foreign country "How sad reality is! How sweet the memories of the past!
In 2016, the author of the author, Prince Andrei Vladimirovich Drutskaya-Sokolinsky, and now with the grandson of the author, Prince Alexander Andreevich Drutsky-Sokolinsky, died, I am publishing a new book. We decided to accommodate the selected pages from the previous earlier and include new texts that were not previously published. Today, some of them seem naive, but we left them as the author conceived. Because this is also a testimony of that era
A new generation of readers in Russia has grown. But. As before, the wise words of the old prince, the true patriot of Russian land, are necessary for everyone who loves their country, dreams of its greatness and awaits its prosperity.
Alexander Vorobyov, publisher