The last Gorbatovs

The last generation of the noble family, who served both Catherine the Great and other Russian autocrats in the old days, enters the historical scene.
Alas, no matter how glorious, he fades, and the noble age is irrevocably a thing of the past. The emergence of a class of entrepreneurs, the extension of the new system in Russia - all this means that the patriarchal way is collapsed and the country becomes a progressive path of development, but not all Gorbatovs are ready for such a future. Someone boldly accepts new trends, and someone is trying to keep the old "lordly manners in spite of everything.
This novel is the final of the five books of the epic "Chronicle of four generations". Through the history of one family, the author shows various periods of Russian and world history