Осень империи. Дневники Константина Романова

Dnevniki velikogo kni͡azi͡a Konstantina Konstantinovicha (1858-1915), na kotorykh osnovana kniga - ėto i letopisʹ rokovogo padenii͡a imperii Romanovykh, i strastnai͡a ispovedʹ mi͡atushcheĭsi͡a dushi poėta K.R., i besposhchadnyĭ analiz svoikh porochnykh chuvstv i kramolʹnykh ideĭ, i ispolnennyĭ boli rasskaz o zloschastii͡akh starshego brata, okazavshegosi͡a po vole t͡sarstvennogo di͡adi͡ushki snachala v zastenke, a zatem v pozhiznennom izgnanii pod nabli͡udeniem vracheĭ-psikhiatrov. Rossii͡a ne zabyla bratʹev: romansy na stikhi K.R. raspevali povsemestno, si͡uzhet ego pʹesy "T͡Sarʹ Iudeĭskiĭ" M. Bulgakov ispolʹzoval pri napisanii "Mastera i Margarity", a prevrativshemu Golodnui͡u stepʹ v t͡svetushchiĭ oazis "sumasshedshemu" Nikolai͡u Konstantinovichu blagodarnye zemli͡aki v 1918 godu (uzhe pri bolʹshevikakh!) ustroili pyshnye pokhorony…

The diaries of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (1858-1915), on which the book is based, are both a chronicle of the fatal fall of the Romanov Empire, and a passionate confession of the restless soul of the poet K.R., and a merciless analysis of his vicious feelings and seditious ideas, and a pain–filled story about the misfortunes of an older brother who, at the behest of a royal uncle, was first in a dungeon, and then in lifelong exile under the supervision of psychiatrists. Russia has not forgotten the brothers: romances to K.R.'s poems were sung everywhere, the plot of his play "The King of the Jews" was used by M. Bulgakov when writing "The Master and Margarita", and grateful countrymen turned the Hungry Steppe into a blooming oasis to "crazy" Nikolai Konstantinovich in 1918 (already under the Bolsheviks!) a lavish funeral was arranged…