If in August 1917 the head of the Provisional Government, Kerensky, had not declared infantry general Lavr Georgievich Kornilov a rebel and removed him from the post of Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the history of Russia (and, perhaps, the world) in the 20th century could have gone a completely different way ...The new novel by the modern writer-historian V. Povolyaev tells about the life path of one of the leaders of the White movement, infantry general, Lavr Georgievich Kornilov (1870-1918).