These memoirs of Countess Potocka of Poland, which were first published in the present English translation in 1900, chronicle the period from the third partition of Poland through to the incorporation into the Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander I.Countess Potocka's memoirs are composed of intermittent sections of people and events that took place between the period 1794 and 1820, and include fascinating details of her career, journeys taken, Court balls attended, and Napoleon I. himself.