A worn-out notebook from a battered suitcase. The diary of a man-about-town in Petrograd. He began writing in the first days of the Great War and finished in the last year of the Great Empire. He met people whose names remained in History, but he didn’t even suspect it. His own name remained unknown to everyone.
A kaleidoscope of metropolitan life in the time of the First World War, seen through the eyes of an eyewitness: séances and strikes, restaurants and cinema, baronesses and stock brokers, poets and Buddhist monks, detectives and spies…