About the book: year / In the center of the book is the bright figure of Dmitry Florinsky, unusual, tragic and almost forgotten. His fate was replete with sharp turns: the former tsarist diplomat worked in Europe and the USA, joined the White movement, then moved to the Reds and headed the Protocol Department of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID). He became famous as the “creator of the red protocol” and left behind unique diary entries. They allow us to recreate a broad picture of the diplomatic life of Moscow in the 1920s and early 1930s, and tell how foreign diplomats worked and lived then. They carried out state affairs, and in addition, they had mistresses and paramours, they scandalized, gossiped, were indignant at the surveillance and provocations of the security officers, got into funny and dramatic stories, and experienced shock from contact with Soviet reality. The nature of the activities of NKID employees is shown. Among them, Florinsky became the first victim of the Great Terror, which marked a new era in Soviet history. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.