The Diary of a Russian Lady is a memoir by Varvara Dukhovskaia offering a firsthand account of aristocratic Russian society as experienced by a woman of her class. Works of this kind provide an invaluable complement to the great fictional portraits of Russian society by Tolstoy and Turgenev, grounding their imaginative worlds in lived historical experience.
A primary-source document of social and cultural history, this public-domain memoir is now available as a free EPUB download — of interest to readers of Russian literature and history alike.