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What My Eyes Have Seen: Eyewitness Accounts of the Most Important Events in Russian History between the Two Revolutions

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One of Russia's most renowned lawyers, Nikolai Platonovich Karabchevsky, published his memoirs after the revolutionary upheavals in 1921 in Berlin, under the title "What My Eyes Have Seen." The author draws on personal impressions in his narrative, but the two volumes of his memoirs seem completely different in subject matter and style. The first volume of his memoirs is subtitled "In Childhood," the second, "Revolution and Russia." The memoirist begins with his childhood and portrays the life of a provincial noble family with nostalgic sadness. But the second volume of his memoirs is about something entirely different... A successful St. Petersburg lawyer and participant in high-profile political trials, he defends terrorists, Socialist Revolutionary militants, revolutionaries, and victims of nationalists; Whether through duty or friendship, he associated with the most prominent lawyers, ministers, and Duma deputies... He was elected chairman of the St. Petersburg Council of Attorneys, a highly honorable position in the legal community... Karabchevsky perceived the fall of the Russian Empire and the outbreak of the Civil War as a terrible tragedy and blamed it primarily on the intelligentsia, who were carried away by the overthrow of the regime without any understanding of how to build a new society. The revolution, in his opinion, "was a combination of external hostile efforts and the blind conceit of our intelligentsia."
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