"the Memoirs" of well-known ballerina Matilda Feliksovna Kshesinskaya (1892-1971), written by it already in an old age (1960), surprisingly brightly and in detail recreate its unusual life happy and dramatic simultaneously. One of the most talented ballerinas in the history of ballet, the brilliant woman, a favourite of cesarevitch Nikolay Aleksandrovicha, the future Nikolay II, the mistress of Grand duke Sergey Mihajlovicha and the wife of other Grand duke, Andrey Vladimirovicha, Kshesinsky has lived without small hundred years, for the rest of the natural having kept interest to a life and fine memory.