The Great War and the February Revolution of 1914-1917. Memoirs of the Major General of the Separate Corps

General Major of the Separate Corps of the gendarmes Alexander Ivanovich Spiridovich was a man devoted to Emperor Nicholas II and the very idea of ​​monarchical power. With the outbreak of the First World War A.I. Spiridovich accompanied the sovereign on trips to the front, ensuring his protection, in the headquarters and in the front -line units. In 1915, A.I. Spiridovich was promoted to Major General. In the summer of 1916, Nicholas II appointed Spiridovich the mayor in Yalta. The war, in general conviction, went to the victorious end, and Yalta, the beloved Crimean corner of the emperor, should be turned into “Russian Nice”, and for this we needed an initiative, honest person, a servant of the law. The general energetically got down to business, but ... History prepared a different scenario for the Russian Empire ... In February 1917, in the midst of revolutionary events, General Spiridovich was in Petrograd, on a business trip, and could observe everything that was happening with his own eyes. The collapse of the Russian Empire, the overthrow of the monarch and subsequent events he perceived as a greater tragedy.
Personal memories of A.I. Spiridovich complements with many official documents, which makes the narrative especially reliable