At the end of the Empire. About the experiences at the beginning of the 20th century: days of wars, revolutions and peace
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At the end of the Empire. About the experiences at the beginning of the 20th century: days of wars, revolutions and peace
9.99 €
General V.N. von Dreyer's memoirs "At the Sunset of the Empire" were written after World War II and published in 1965, when the general was approaching his ninetieth birthday. But the narrative he brought only to the beginning of the Russian Civil War - a fateful line that divided the fates of many Russian people into "before" and "after". And Vladimir von Dreyer was a Russian man, although with German roots, Orthodox, from a family of hereditary military. And for himself he did not think of any other fate but military service. He happened to serve in Turkestan, in garrisons on the western border, to study at the General Staff Academy in St. Petersburg, to fight in World War I ... Von Dreyer fought heroically, being on the hottest parts of the front, for example, he was one of the few officers who escaped with battles from the terrible encirclement in the infamous August forests.
His life was full of not only various adventures, but also unusual encounters. Many famous historical characters were just friends, acquaintances and coworkers for him... He served with Brusilov, Kornilov, Wrangel and knew well most of the famous generals of the first quarter of the twentieth century. The future Soviet Marshal Shaposhnikov as a young officer nicknamed "Boy Borja" was under von Dreyer... He remembered and told a lot of interesting things, and he told with concern, in a wonderful, rich Russian language, with humor, with unusual details, as they say, "with a soul"....
His life was full of not only various adventures, but also unusual encounters. Many famous historical characters were just friends, acquaintances and coworkers for him... He served with Brusilov, Kornilov, Wrangel and knew well most of the famous generals of the first quarter of the twentieth century. The future Soviet Marshal Shaposhnikov as a young officer nicknamed "Boy Borja" was under von Dreyer... He remembered and told a lot of interesting things, and he told with concern, in a wonderful, rich Russian language, with humor, with unusual details, as they say, "with a soul"....
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