The Great War and the February Revolution of 1914-1917
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The Great War and the February Revolution of 1914-1917
29.99 €
Major General of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes Alexander Ivanovich Spiridovich was a man devoted to Emperor Nicholas II and the very idea of monarchical power. With the outbreak of World War I, A.I. Spiridovich accompanied the Tsar on trips to the front, providing his security at Headquarters and in front-line units. In 1915, for his service successes, A.I. Spiridovich was promoted to major general. In the summer of 1916, Nicholas II appointed Spiridovich mayor of Yalta. The war, by all accounts, was coming to a victorious end, and Yalta, the Emperor's favorite Crimean corner, had to be turned into a "Russian Nice", and for this, a proactive, honest person, a servant of the law, was needed. The general energetically set to work, but... history had prepared a different scenario for the Russian Empire... In February 1917, at the height of the revolutionary events, General Spiridovich found himself in Petrograd, on a business trip, and could observe everything that was happening with his own eyes. He perceived the collapse of the Russian Empire, the overthrow of the monarch and the subsequent events as a great tragedy. A.I. Spiridovich supplements his personal memoirs with many official documents, which makes the narrative especially credible.
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