The brightest representative of the poetry of the Silver Age, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov, went to the front as a volunteer in 1914, despite the fact that back in 1907 he was exempt from military service. The book “Notes of a Cavalryman” is a documentary story about the first years he spent in the ranks of the 1st squadron of the Life Guards Uhlan Regiment. Before us are living pictures of the war, presented through the eyes not so much of the great acmeist poet, but of a cavalryman who courageously shared the hardships of military life along with ordinary soldiers.* * *Cavalry General Alexei Alekseevich Brusilov went down in the history of the First World War as an outstanding commander. His talentedly conceived and brilliantly executed breakthrough of the front of the Austro-German troops in 1916, called Lutsk, and subsequently Brusilovsky, was reflected in the entire course of the world war.