Yekaterinburg - Vladivostok. Eyewitness accounts of the revolution and civil war. 1917–1922

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Vladimir Petrovich Anichkov, a Russian banker and entrepreneur, for a long time headed a branch of the Volzhsk-Kama Bank and, as a result, found himself in the very center of the February and subsequent events in the Urals and Siberia. Shortly after the revolution, Anichkov joined the Committee of Public Security. In his book, the author tells how he waited out the Red Terror in the vicinity of the city of Yekaterinburg. After the Bolsheviks came to power and the banks were nationalized, Anichkov was arrested and later fled. He worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Kolchak government. The work is full of live observations and rare details. The story of events and historical characters that are not fictional, but absolutely real, reads, without exaggeration, like an adventure novel. The atmosphere of that time is perfectly conveyed, and the names are familiar to everyone who is interested in the history of the Fatherland: the exiled princes Sergei Mikhailovich, Konstantin and Igor Konstantinovich Romanov, the investigator for the murder of the royal family Nikolai Sokolov, the valet of Emperor Nicholas II Terenty Chemodurov and a string of contemporaries drawn into the whirlwind of a revolutionary coup …

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Publication language: Russian

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