About the book: 2020 / Author of the book "The Last Petersburg. Memoirs of a Chamberlain” in the pre-revolutionary years took a direct part in the reform policies of S. Yu. Witte, and then P. A. Stolypin. Ivan Tkhorzhevsky accompanied Stolypin on his trip to Siberia. After the revolution he was forced to emigrate. For many years he was published in Russian newspapers in Paris as a publicist and as a poet-translator. Memoirs of Ivan Tkhorzhevsky remained unfinished. They are collected for the first time in a separate book. They show a burning interest in resolving the most pressing Russian problems. The appendix contains, in particular, selected translations of Omar Khayyam’s quatrains, for the first time with corrections made by Ivan Tkhorzhevsky in the printed text of the Paris edition of the book of quatrains. For the widest range of readers.