Sergei Vladimirovich Markov is a representative of the white emigration, a monarchist, a former officer. He volunteered for the First World War at the age of 16 and met the fateful year of 1917 as a very young eighteen-year-old cornet, but already with severe front-line wounds and St. George's Crosses for bravery. Sergei Markov served in the Crimean Cavalry Regiment, whose chief was Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, in a caring, maternal manner treating her officers, including “little” Markov, as she called him. The former cornet remained loyal to his “sovereign boss” for the rest of his life. He was one of the few officers who tried to do at least something to save the royal family, which was under arrest after the February Revolution, and even went to Tobolsk after the exiled empress and her relatives. Alas, watching the arrested from afar, without being able to help in any way, was unbearably difficult. And the boy-cornet, even with the help of several friends, was unable to provide effective assistance in their liberation without endangering the lives of members of the royal family. In 1928, a book of memoirs by Sergei Markov, “The Abandoned Royal Family,” was published in Vienna, in which he talks about everything he experienced during the Russian Revolution, about people from the inner circle of the royal family and how they revealed themselves in the terrible days of the people's revolt, about the Civil War that began in Russia and about the overthrown crowned princes who had no one to help in the last days of their lives... Saved in PDF A4 format publishing design.