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

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Yekaterinburg - Vladivostok. Eyewitness testimony of the revolution and civil war. 1917-1922
14.99 €
Vladimir Petrovich Anichkov, a Russian banker and businessman, was the head of the Volzhsk-Kamsky Bank branch for a long time and as a result was at the very center of the February and subsequent events in the Urals and Siberia. Soon after the revolution Anichkov became a member of 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 nationalized the banks, Anichkov was arrested and later fled. He worked in the Ministry of Finance of Kolchak's government. The work is full of lively observations and rare details. The narrative of events and historical characters, which are not fictitious, but absolutely real, reads, without exaggeration, like an adventure novel. The atmosphere of the time is transferred perfectly, and the names are familiar to everyone who is interested in the history of the Fatherland: exiled Princes Sergei Mikhailovich, Konstantin and Igor Konstantinovichi Romanovs, the investigator of the murder of the royal family Nikolai Sokolov, valet of Emperor Nicholas II Terenty Chemodurov and a string of contemporaries, drawn into the whirlwind of revolutionary upheaval ...
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