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The 30-page typescript provides an account of the events of 1917 from the point of view of a cadet in the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Petrograd, where Velikotnyĭ studied in 1916 and 1917. It also describes in detail Velikotnyĭ's experiences as an officer in the Volunteer Army from late 1917 until the evacuation of the White Army in Nov. 1920.
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Memoirs: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1971.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Memoirs Accessioned 1971.
Memoirs Processed 01/--/82.
2020-05-18 PDF removed. jg
Fought in the Civil War on the side of the Whites.
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| Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |