140×215 (60×90/16), hard cover, 352 pp., 2005
5-86793-385-7

In the early 19th century, relations between Russians and Poles were based on centuries of close cultural contact and interaction, as well as frequent disputes, which came to a head in the Polish intervention during the Great Distemper of the 17th century.
The events of the Polish armed intervention and the Russo-Polish War are portrayed in this book through the eyes of two noblewomen: a Pole and a Russian. Combined in a single volume, the memoirs of Natalia Kitskaya and Nadezhda Golitsyna allow the reader to see the war from both sides. Kitskaya’s memoirs paint a picture of a Warsaw in the throes of rebellion, and of the intellectual tumult in the Polish Army and the aristocratic circles to which she belonged. The memoirs of Golytsina tell of her flight, with her husband and child, from the Polish revolution as part of the retinue of the Grand Duke Konstantin.

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