Vladimir Petrovich Anichkov is a Russian banker and entrepreneur, for a long time he headed the branch of the Volzhsko-Kama Bank and, as a result, found himself at the very center of the February and subsequent events in the Urals and Siberia. Soon after the revolution, Anichkov became a member of the Public Security Committee. In his book, the author tells how he waited out the Red Terror in the vicinity of the city of Yekaterinburg. After the Bolsheviks came to power and nationalized the banks, Anichkov was arrested and later fled. He worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Kolchak government. The work is full of live observations and rare details. The narrative about events and historical characters that are not fictional, but absolutely real, reads, without exaggeration, like an adventure novel. The atmosphere of that time is conveyed perfectly, and the names are familiar to everyone who is interested in the history of the Fatherland: the exiled princes Sergei Mikhailovich, Konstantin and Igor Konstantinovich Romanov, the investigator of the murder of the royal family Nikolai Sokolov, the valet of Emperor Nicholas II Terenty Chemodurov and a string of contemporaries drawn into the whirlwind of the revolutionary upheaval ...The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.