Colonel Alexander Petrovich Perkhurov is a hereditary nobleman, a graduate of the Academy of the General Staff, and the leader of the Yaroslavl rebellion in July 1918. Before the trial, in his prison cell, he wrote the proposed memoirs, in which he spoke about his acquaintance with Boris Savinkov, the organizer of the anti-Soviet “Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom,” about the preparation and course of the uprising on the Volga, about how he saw the future of Russia at the end his life path. The reader gets a rare opportunity to hear a person who did not recognize the revolution, actively opposed Soviet power and was severely punished for this. Even at the trial, Perkhurov did not renounce his convictions, declaring that he is still in favor of the monarchy, if only a new Peter the Great could be found in Russia. Such conviction cannot but arouse interest in the personality of this complex, in his own way, courageous and extraordinary man, who found himself on the other side of the barricade that bloodily crossed Russia in 1717.