Autocrat of the desert

"The Autocrat of the Desert" is a book about the life of Roman Fyodorovich Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921), an Estonian baron, White Army general, and Mongolian khan, about the fates of people connected to him, and about the Civil War in Eastern Russia. This is a new, significantly revised and expanded edition with a unique selection of photographs. "The dark charm of Ungern is not limited to the 'charm of evil' alone. One of the first in the 20th century, Ungern walked that ancient path where a wandering knight becomes a wandering killer, a dreamer becomes an executioner, a mystic becomes a doctrinaire. On this path, a person striving to bring back the golden age to earth, returns not even bronze, but stone" (Leonid Yuzefovich).