Confessions of the Czarina

INTRODUCTION

I am not a coward, and it was not out of a feeling of uneasiness in regard to my personal safety, that I had not the courage to publish in my own name the book which, some thirty years ago, produced such a sensation when it appeared in the _Nouvelle Revue_ of Madame Adam, under the title of “La Société de Berlin.” But I was living in Germany at the time, and though I wo...