Table of Contents
Foreword Anatol Shmelev ix
Translator's Foreword Tanya Alexandra Cameron xi
Introduction: The End of Imperial Russia Gary M. Hamburg xiii
The Memoirs of Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff Tanya Alexandra Cameron 1
Childhood 3
Early Remembrances 3
Rzhev: 1891-93 6
The New Location: 1893 8
My Friends: 1893-98 11
Sashutka: 1894-1902 15
Mens Sano in Corpore Sano 20
Not Enough Land 27
The Landed Gentry 31
Our Establishment 36
Faith, Tsar, and Fatherland 40
Instruction Is Light, and Ignorance Is Darkness 47
Youth 53
Page Corps: The First Steps 53
My Page Comrades 56
Aleksandr Verkhovsky 64
More on the Page Corps 71
The Arrival of the Emperor 82
The Heir Is Born 85
A Shot Fired 92
Tsarskoe Selo 98
My Youth in the Horse Grenadier Regiment 107
To Drink to Russia Is a Joy 107
In Defense of the Throne 116
Nicholas Our Tsar-Father 125
An Arshin Eight 134
Yanov 141
Tempted by Sin 146
The Beginning of a Vital Struggle 159
Livonia 159
Reaction: 1906-10 185
Family Affairs 189
Marusia Grevens 194
Abroad 199
The Imperial Nicholas Military Academy 205
The Living Corpse 221
The Trial of Honor 227
Warsaw 1914 237
To War 245
Pre-Mobilization Period 245
September 1957 248
Mobilization: The First Fiasco 251
Cavalry Action 255
The Second Army Attacks 263
"And His Own Received Him Not" 269
Remote Reconnaissance 272
Catastrophe 277
In the Turkestan Corps 284
Staff of the Corps 291
The Battle of Przasnysz 295
Withdrawal from Poland 310
Into Aviation 316
The Beginning of the End 329
The End 343
Kerensky's Times: The Inverted Pyramid 350
The Cradle of the White Army 355
Action and Counteraction 361
The Revolution Is Deepening 367
The End Comes to Supreme Headquarters 375
At the Crossroads 382
Terror in Kiev: January 1918 391
The German Occupation 402
In the Kirpichev Squad 406
Everything Is Permitted to a Woman 411
Odessa 1919 415
Farewell Native Land 418
Epilogue: Escape, Travels, and Life in the United States Tanya Alexandra Cameron 425
A Broken Life Gary M. Hamburg 437
About the Contributors 585
Index 587