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 Preface

Писатель: ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1917, сводный линклист

Глава в томе: The treasure of the white army

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"All those years you've been pulling the wool over our eyes," he said, "pretending to be a second-rate student." "1 want to go to war so much, it has worked a miracle," I told him. I had not given my mother even a hint of what I was up to because I knew she would object. And of course when I showed her my report card and told her I wanted to enter the military academy, she was vehemently opposed and refused her consent. Since I was a minor, I could not join without it. But a month of arguments, pleading and tears finally won her permission, and on a day that was glorious for me and sad for her, I donned my uniform and set off for the reserve battalion stationed at Ekaterinodar, the capital of the Cossack Kuban territory. I had requested assignment and been given to a military academy that had just been established at Tashkent in central Asia, a region I had read much about in school, so, carrying my free railway ticket and all my documents, I said good-bye to my mother and family and set out on the long trip.

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 3. First Reverses

Писатель: ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1917, сводный линклист

Глава в томе: The treasure of the white army

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Our two detachments were to disarm the soldiers who spent their time at Bolshevik propaganda meetings. We put their arms, including their cannons, into trains. As a reinforcement for my section, I received two young female first lieutenants. They had been students at the time of the Revolution and had taken advantage of the rights granted women by the provisional government to take accelerated officer training in Moscow. They were named Barkache and Zubakina, both very pretty girls. They demanded that they be treated as any other officers, and once we had all got used to this, we got on very well. And they were very brave, as I was to learn a few days later.

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 5. Farewell Mother Russia

Писатель: ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1917, сводный линклист

Глава в томе: The treasure of the white army

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We were glad of a chance to catch some sleep. But we had also been left in charge of a few hundred prisoners, and we didn't know what to do with them. They were mostly boys of eighteen to twenty who did not understand the war at all. We couldn't let them go nor could we kill them. Soon, our dilemma was solved for us. A patrol, coming in from the opposite direction General Babiev had gone in, notified us that a large force of Red cavalry was advancing toward the stanitza. Since cavalry cannot fight in a town, the director of the military school, the highest-, ranking officer among us, ordered us to withdraw immediately to the north, in the direction of our landing base. We had to abandon the prisoners.

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 8. A Fantastic Secret

Писатель: ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1917, сводный линклист

Глава в томе: The treasure of the white army

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I practically had to lose my temper in order to get him to accept twenty English pounds, a small fortune to him. Furnished with a supply of meat, bread and cheese, I set out at about 10 P.M. I moved along a narrow path, my Mauser in my hand, a bullet in the chamber. It was a clear night. The clouds had disappeared and the landscape was brightly lit by a half moon. Suddenly, two uniformed figures loomed in front of me, Greek policemen. But they had made a bad mistake. Instead of carrying their carbines at the ready, they had them slung over their shoulders. I didn't want to kill them but I had to do something. I fired at their legs and they crumpled with screams of pain.

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 The treasure of the white army | Глава 5

Писатель: ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1917, сводный линклист

Глава в томе: The treasure of the white army

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The Russians told us that the Greek population had abandoned the city, when Kemal Pasha's army reached the opposite shore of the Sea of Marmara. It was better to be a refugee in Greece than face the Turkish soldiers, who did not treat Greeks gently. When I got back to Constantinople, I faced the same problems as before: I was a penniless refugee in a city where there was no work to be found. There was a three-or four-month waiting list to emigrate to America and even then I would have had to have at least twenty-five Turkish pounds, which I had no way of getting.

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 13. From Riches to Ruin

Писатель: ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1917, сводный линклист

Глава в томе: The treasure of the white army

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Of course, I denied that I had anything to do with killing the two men, whose bodies had since been discovered, and the police admitted freely that they were not really concerned about that. They were just as happy to have two fewer smugglers to worry about. After two days, I was transferred to the prison in Sofia. The police there were most anxious to know whether I had entered Bulgaria illegally. I made up an elaborate story which they did not believe. The fact was I had mailed my Panamanian passport to General Delivery in Burgas and by this time it had already been returned to Brussels.

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 15. An End to My Prisons

Писатель: ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1917, сводный линклист

Глава в томе: The treasure of the white army

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I had to make some money. Every morning Maroussia applied a yellow liquid to her hair. When I asked her what it was, she told me that her father, who was a doctor, had invented a way of restoring color to graying hair. After a number of experiments, I was finally persuaded that it did work. We planned to merchandise it, and I christened it Serebrine, from the Russian word for silver. At first, we were refused permission to manufacture and sell it in Belgium but after it was tested in government laboratories, we got a license. We set about the task of introducing it to the market with our extremely limited resources.

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