As Nikolai Ryzhkov describes it in his memoirs, " every Thursday morning he ( Mikhail Gorbachev ) would sit in his office like a little orphan – I would often be present at this sad procedure – nervously awaiting a telephone call from the sick Chernenko: Would he come to the Politburo himself or would he ask Gorbachev to stand in for him this time again?

The only exception was the Soviet Union, who initially refused to supply Iraq on the basis of neutrality in the conflict, although in his memoirs, Mikhail Gorbachev claimed that Leonid Brezhnev refused to aid Saddam over infuriation of Saddam's treatment of Iraqi communists.

Mikhail Gorbachev also refers to eurocommunism as a key influence on the ideas of glasnost and perestroika in his memoirs.

In his memoirs Mikhail Gorbachev describes Ustinov as a man who normally had an energetic and bright personality.

Thus, he claims in his memoirs that the USSR had become " a raw material appendage to Bulgaria ," something obliquely confirmed by Gorbachev when he wrote in his memoirs that " Bulgaria was a country which had lived beyond its means for a long time.

He also rejected suggestions after the fall of the Soviet Union that he had been opposed to Gorbachev in his memoirs and in speeches.

Ligachev denied time and again that he was opposed to Gorbachev in sources including his memoirs.

In his 1996 memoirs labor lawyer Victor Rabinowitz recalled:

In his memoirs, Prince recalled, " Sondheim and Bernstein sat at the piano playing through the music, and soon I was singing along with them.

In their memoirs, both her mother's friend, Vyrubova, and lady in waiting Lili Dehn recalled that Tatiana, the most social of the sisters, longed for friends her own age but her social life was restricted by her rank and her mother's distaste for society.

She " would be pleasant to the guards if she thought they were behaving in an acceptable and decorous manner ," recalled another of the guards in his memoirs.

As Nixon recalled in his memoirs: " From the outset of my administration ...

" One of Finland's most famous clairvoyants, Aino Kassinen, recalled in her memoirs that she met Ryti in the 1930s in Helsinki, and got the understanding that Ryti strongly believed in people's being guided by the higher divine powers, and that he strongly believed in God, and had studied theosophy and anthroposophy.

In his memoirs, Khrushchev recalled an occasion when Stalin, during a drunken rage at a party, dragged a crying Alliluyeva onto a dance floor by her hair.

He only returned, he later recalled in his memoirs, upon the promise of " absolute full power " over the editorial desk.

In one of the first published memoirs about life and death in the Jasenovac complex, a Croatian medical doctor and academic, Dr. Nikola Nikolić, who had been imprisoned in Camp III, described his first meeting with Filipović: “ His voice had an almost feminine quality which was at odds with his physical stature and coarse face .” Nikolić recalled standing in the second row of a group of prisoners who had been lined up to watch as another group of prisoners were herded in front of Filipović.

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz notes that in his memoirs Husseini recalled that Heinrich Himmler, in the summer of 1943, while confiding some German war secrets, inveighed against Jewish " war guilt ", and, speaking of Germany ’ s persecution of the Jews said that " up to now we have exterminated ( in Arabic, abadna ) around three million of them ".

The intense nationalistic feeling that swept the country now that America was embroiled at last in the war in Europe spelled the end of Nearing's Toledo days, as he later recalled in his memoirs:

Prior to the 1905 Battle of Tsushima, Lieutenant Commander Kawada Isao recalled in his memoirs that:

In his memoirs, the famous opera promoter " Colonel " Mapleson recalled Patti's stubborn personality and sharp business sense.

" Another was the future translator and author of memoirs Elizaveta Fen who later recalled Orwell and his friend Richard Rees, " draped " at the fireplace, looking, she thought, " moth-eaten and prematurely aged.

Aside from some objections from British MPs who protested Canada's past mistreatment of Quebec and Aboriginal peoples ( as recalled with frustration by Jean Chrétien in his memoirs Straight from the Heart ), there was little opposition from the British government to passing the Act.

In his memoirs, Scott recalled that David Barclay requested an exclusive option to buy the firm and to keep it secret from all but two directors.

That night, she later recalled in her memoirs, the Tsar told her: " Now you are my secret wife.

" In his memoirs, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich recalled that the pink and white négligée she was wearing was soaked in Alexander's blood.

In his memoirs, Kennan recalled, " So far as I could see, we were expecting to be able to gain our objectives ... without making any concessions though, only ' if we were really all-powerful, and could hope to get away with it.

He recalled in his memoirs: " Irrespective of the fact I was at the top of my game for Yorkshire and frequently topped the county bowling averages, I was often overlooked for England.

And if Dora recalled this when writing her memoirs, it might account for the fact the coded message was referred to as an ' inscription ' when communicating with the director of SOAS many years later.

The memoirs of Private Matthew Bishop, of the Queen's Regiment, contained an account that recalled: " the French were well prepared to give us a warm salute.

In his later memoirs, Mein Leben, Wagner recalled:

This proved to be a pivotal moment in the 20-year-old's life, as he later recalled in his memoirs:

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

From the memoirs written by Agrippina the Younger, Tacitus used the memoirs to extract information regarding the family and fate of Agrippina the Elder, when Tacitus was writing The Annals.

However, Quigley's role ended in 1988 when it became public through the memoirs of former chief of staff, Donald Regan.

Ivinskaya relates in her memoirs that, when the agents burst into her apartment, she was at her typewriter working on translations of the Korean poet Won Tu-Son.

Khrushchev wrote in his ( unreliable ) memoirs that Beria had, immediately after the stroke, gone about " spewing hatred against and mocking him ", and then, when Stalin showed signs of consciousness, dropped to his knees and kissed his hand.

He wrote in his memoirs that he found this period very useful later on, when he entered politics, and that senior civil servant Norman Robertson tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to stay on.

On 4 March 2004, he published the first of his memoirs, called " Memories 1930 – 1982 ", covering the period 1930 to 1982, when he became chancellor.

Grant ( serving as President when Sherman ’ s memoirs first appeared ) later remarked that others had told him that Sherman treated Grant unfairly but " when I finished the book, I found I approved every word ; that ... it was a true book, an honorable book, creditable to Sherman, just to his companions — to myself particularly so — just such a book as I expected Sherman would write.

Tirpitz had sought to provide the answer in 1919 when he published his memoirs, where he blamed everybody but himself for the defeat.

Raeder claimed in his 1957 memoirs Mein Leben that he had first learned that the regime in which he served so long was a criminal regime in March 1945 when he visited his old colleague, the former Defence Minister Otto Gessler in a hospital when he was recovering from the torture he received in a concentration camp.

Philippe de Commynes, the minister of King Louis XI of France tells in his memoirs how the king observed this custom, and describes the trepidation he felt when he had to inform the king of an emergency on the day.

According to Errol Flynn's memoirs, film director Raoul Walsh " borrowed " Barrymore's body before burial, and left his corpse propped in a chair for a drunken Flynn to discover when he returned home from The Cock and Bull Bar.

It also includes very extensive autobiographical elements about Psellos ' political and intellectual development, and it gives far greater weight to those periods when Psellos held an active position in politics ( especially the reign of Constantine IX ), giving the whole work almost the character of political memoirs.

The Chief of Staff of the Russian 1st Army, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, related in his memoirs that the Russian left was shifting position when the French Army showed up sooner than expected, thus the Battle of Shevardino became a delaying effort to shield the redeployment of the Russian left.

As The Blue Belles, their first single was ironically a song that the group didn't participate in-" I Sold My Heart to the Junkman " was, as explained in Patti LaBelle's memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, originally recorded by The Starlets, then riding high on their hit single, " Tell Him No " and were on the road when the song was released, unable to promote it.

Marbot recounts in the book of his memoirs, referring to the battle, how in him a bullet pierced his portfolio, and the incident that, when starting the fight, he had with Lieutenant Labedoyère.

The next time a name is given in the sources is three decades later, in 1530, when the ( Slovene ) monk Benedikt Kuripešić ( Curipeschitz ) wrote memoirs of his travels through the Balkan Peninsula.

Profumo maintained complete public silence about the matter for the rest of his life, even when the 1989 film Scandal and the publication of Keeler's memoirs revived public interest in the affair.

In the memoirs, Speer openly wondered when exactly Hitler ever found time to do anything important.

In memoirs written when he was eighteen years old, Krishnamurti described psychic experiences, such as " seeing " his sister, who had died in 1904, and his mother, who had died in 1905.