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“Essays on the Russian Troubles”

The name of General A. I. Denikin went down in history as the name of the head of the armed forces of southern Russia during the most acute period of the civil war. Having replaced the fallen General Kornilov, Denikin and his armies came closer to Moscow than any other of the white leaders. But the forces turned out to be unequal.

General Denikin wrote five volumes of his history, filled with descriptions of campaigns and battles, descriptions of the historical epic of the armed forces of the white south.  Denikin describes with great care and a number of details the operations of the southern armies, first the volunteer-Kornilov army, then Denikin’s, right up to the very end, until the Novorossiysk evacuation in the spring of 1920. This publication includes the general’s memoirs about the events of the Civil War in the south of Russia in 1919-1920.

In May-July 1919, the Moscow campaign of Denikin’s army began. By the beginning of June, the White Guards captured Donbass, on June 24 they took Kharkov, on June 27 they took Yekaterinoslav, and on June 30 they took Tsaritsyn. On July 3, 1919, Denikin signed the Moscow Directive, in which he set the task of taking Moscow...