Черноморский флот всегда занимал особое место в истории войн и революций, происходивших в России в ХХ веке. Трижды: в 1920, 1941 и 1991 годах — Черноморский флот оказывался на грани гибели. Дважды он стремительно возрождался и становился еще сильнее. Как это произошло? Почему мы так мало знаем о реальных событиях трех войн и трех революций? Возрождается ли флот в третий раз? На эти и многие...

The book contains documents highlighting the uprising in Iaroslavl the 6th - 21st of July, 1918 in one of the most dramatic events of the Russian Civil War. Most of the materials where previously classified and were not available to researchers before the 1990s. Many of these documents are published here for the first time.

The Insulted and Humiliated. In this novel we see a young man madly in love with a girl from a moderately poor family. This girl falls in love with a very aristocratic prince - a man without principles, but charming in his childish egotism - extremely attractive by his sincerity, and with a full capacity for quite unconsciously committing the worst crimes toward those with whom life brings...

This one is very gloomy but without the dramatic battles and mayhem found in other Russian novels. This is a grim study of a spiritually bankrupt country split by greed and selfishness. A very bitter portrayal of Russia.