Memoirs V. M. Chernova - one of the leaders of the Social Revolutionary Party, philosopher and writer, a brilliant orator, organizer of the first publications on the topic of populism movements reveal a broad panorama of the political life of Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries. Assessment of events in 1905 and the revolution of 1917, interpreted the social-revolutionary, will be interesting for those who are interested in the history of the revolutionary movement in Russia, and informative for a wide range of readers.