“...The commander of His Majesty's Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment, General Rauch, congratulated the sovereign on the birth of an heir the next day and inqui...

“A Russian doctor from a distant post beyond Dakar has been sending me rare letters for two years now. Sometimes these are abrupt short notes, sometimes refl...

“...The name of Dukhonin is one of the most inspired and brightest names of heroic Russia. This is the name of duty and heroism.”

“...General Repyev shows me the rooms, lecture rooms, library, offices. Still getting settled. In one of the rooms there is a chalkboard with a sponge. There...

“...Kornilov is the axis of Russian post-revolutionary existence. Our internal axis around which everything revolves. There is no other one. And if there is ...

“...All of D. S. Merezhkovsky’s schemes about the world and existence may be controversial. But Merezhkovsky’s premonitions, his anticipation of the future a...

“The reign of Emperor Nicholas II was sealed with tragic fate, and these words about fate are not today’s bitterness of our souls, shocked by the trials of a...

“...Simonov Monastery. Every year, and many such years passed, on the day of Venevitinov’s death, his friends gathered at the monastery, and in memory of the...

“...But there stood among the living facades a dead house, with blind spots on the glass. Its dark windows were dusty, and the entrance doors with rusty hing...

“...Let's celebrate another anniversary - the twelfth. The volunteer army set out from Rostov on the First Kuban Campaign on January 22, 1918. The first offi...

“...our whole life then became a departure. Care. In Kyiv, the Bolsheviks broke into the city. People, abandoning everything, began to leave. All night long ...