My Service in the Old Guard

By Yuri Makarov. Selected excerpts translated by Greg King.

In 1945, a former Tsarist officer wrote a set of memoirs, My Service in the Old Guard, 1905-1917.  The book appeared in a Russian edition from a Buenos Aires publisher, Dorrego, in 1951, two years after the author’s death.  Although much of the book is very detailed but quite interesting look back at his service in the Imperial Guard, there are also som…