My Service in the Old Guard. War and Peace of an Officer of the Semenovsky Regiment. 1905–1917
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My Service in the Old Guard. War and Peace of an Officer of the Semenovsky Regiment. 1905–1917
19.99 €
Yuri Vladimirovich Makarov is a Russian nobleman, a career officer of the Guards, whose entire military service in old Russia was connected with the famous Semyonovsky Regiment founded by Peter the Great. Immediately after junior college Yuri Makarov entered the Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment and remained loyal to it all his life, even in those hard times when the regiment ceased to exist, and its officers who survived the battles of World War I, scattered not only across Russia, but around the world. But the memory of their regiment former Semenovtsy kept sacred. Before the First World War, Yuri Makarov graduated from the officer's courses of Oriental languages and was sent to the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but immediately after the outbreak of war he submitted a report with a request to return him to his native regiment. With his regiment Makarov went through the most difficult periods of the war, when his units suffered huge losses, and he was severely wounded more than once, but after treatment returned to the ranks ... But this book is not only about war and hard military service - "balls, beauties, footmen, junkers" will also pass before the eyes of the reader, as well as many officers and public figures who left a trace in history - from Colonel of the Preobrazhensky Regiment AP Kutepov, the future general of the White Army and leader of the monarchists, to the young Semenovtsy, lieutenant M. N. Tukhachevsky, the future Soviet Marshal ... Yuri Makarov gives a broad picture of military life in the early twentieth century, telling about everything with subtle humor, bright and imaginative.
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