Reprint of the famous diaries SP Zhikhareva, Russian playwright, writer, connoisseur of theatrical life. The reader is presented a wide lordly life of Russian society era of Alexander I and Nicholas I in the form of lively and variegated panorama without generalizations and conclusions, but as a result of observation of the author. The author provides valuable material for an intimate history of Russian literature, and especially of the Russian theater, as well as a gallery of portraits uncommon - and Catherine"s veterans and the people of the new era of the XIX century, in all spheres of society.