The work is dedicated to the White movement in the north-west of Russia in 1918–1919. It combines a biographical reference book and a monographic study. It included biographies of N.N. Yudenich, A.P. Rodzianko, P.V. von Glasenap, W.K. Pilkina, St. book A.P. Lieven, other generals and officers (more than 60 personalities in total), compiled on the basis of sources from domestic and foreign archives, as well as the author’s personal archive. The plan of General Yudenich to capture Petrograd, the circumstances and reasons for the failure of its implementation are revealed. The place and role in the operation of the command level of the North-Western Army, participants in the preparation of the counter-revolutionary uprising in Petrograd, are shown.