The name of Colonel Roman Romanovich von Raupach (1870–1943) is completely unknown to wide circles of Russian readers and will say little to most specialist historians. Nevertheless, Russia owes the emergence of the White movement and all subsequent events of its complex history to this man, who played a key role in organizing the escape of General Lavr Kornilov from Bykhov prison in November 1917. The book contains a largely unusual and independent view of the author on Russia, as well as an analysis of the reasons that led it to revolutionary changes at the beginning of the 20th century. “The Face of a Dying Man” is not just a memoir about the life and work of an individual, it is an attempt to analyze one’s fate in the context the events experienced, to understand their origins, to reveal the root causes of those social diseases that matured in the body of Russian society and led to 1917, with the subsequent socio-political phenomena that changed almost beyond recognition the image of the Russian state, the psychology and mentality of its population, which had developed over centuries. This is an attempt by one brave man to look into the “face of a dying patient,” which was the Russian state and society, and to understand, to “diagnose” the reasons that chained him to his “deathbed.” This is a journalistic work that contains some features of a socio-psychological approach based on deep penetration into the social, cultural, behavioral and other characteristics of the Russian ethnic group. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.