Год революции. воспоминания офицера генерального штаба зы 1917 - 1918 года

Vertsinsky, Eduard Aleksandrovich - Russian major general, participant in the First World War. He graduated from the 1st Cadet Corps, the 1st Pavlovsk Military School, and in 1900 he graduated from the Nikolaev General Staff Academy in the 1st category. He was stationed at the Warsaw Military District. Participated in the Russian-Japanese War. During World War I he commanded the 145th Infantry. Novocherkassk Regiment, Life Guards 2nd Tsarskoye Selo Rifle Regiment, chief of staff of the Guards Rifle Brigade, Guards Rifle Division, chief of staff of the XVIII Army Corps, then beginning. headquarters of the 8th Army, commander of the Guards Rifle Division. Emigrated to Estonia, lived in Tallinn. After the annexation of the Baltic states, he was arrested by the NKVD. On February 24, 1941 he was sentenced to death, shot in Leningrad.

Dedicated to the blessed memory of His Majesty’s 1st Infantry Regiment of the Life Guards, Colonel Vladimir Mikhailovich Bykov, Captain Alexander Sergeevich Kolobov...

Contents: The beginning of the revolution. Headquarters of the 18th Army Corps. Headquarters of the 8th Army of General Kornilov. Command of the Guards Rifle Division. Service in the Main Directorate of the General Staff.