In your hands is a unique document. A living—unlike archival—testimony in the prosecution case against communism. The astonishing, miraculous tears of a fragile mother, a wanderer across a crucified Holy Rus’ during the greatest tragedy in human history. The experience that even “one person in the field is a warrior,” if the side of that person is Truth.
After many years of waiting, the unique memoirs of the noblest Russian woman were finally published—she became a victim of communist terror and the merciless destruction of elementary justice. Princess Natalya Vladimirovna Urusova (1874–1963) possessed a poetic gift, and all her memoirs read like a delicate work of a soul troubled by the obvious loss of public nobility and the cross-bearing of maternal torment, when her children were exterminated only because of their noble birth. Her poetic sense of life gave her strength to endure moral torture and remain, to the end, an honest person. Starting from the first days of the revolution, she noticed the falsity in the leading circles of society, and she did not reconcile with it until her last breath in her old age.
Urusova should be regarded as a mentor for those Russian people who love Truth above all else and want—according to such a life—to ennoble themselves, their children, and our many-suffering Motherland.