Князь Мещерский. Воспоминания

Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (1839-1914) - publicist, prose writer, publisher-editor of "Citizen", grandson of Nikolai Karamzin, employer of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Chamberlain of Alexander II, friend of Alexander III. He constantly subjected the state bureaucracy and high society to patriotic criticism, while simultaneously declaring war on revolutionary nihilism and liberalism. V.V. Rozanov considered him a brilliant talent: “so much subtlety and sharpness in language and thought”; This opinion was at odds with the position of most of his contemporaries: “ultra-nobleman and guardian-serf owner,” “an old jester, a notorious libertine,” “a street predator.” Decide for yourself: you have in your hands the first complete posthumous edition of all three volumes of Prince Meshchersky’s memoirs.