Memories. Sukhomlinov V.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Sukhomlinov (1848–1926) made a dizzying career, becoming the military Minister of the Russian Empire, Adjutant General Nicholas II, a member of the State Council and the gentleman of many domestic and foreign orders. His fall was no less dizzying: at the height of the First World War, he was suspended from all posts, accused of treason, arrested, judged, sentenced to life imprisonment. Miraculously, he managed to emigrate to Germany in 1918.

were the accusations against him or Honored General fell victim to the far -reaching intrigue, the main goal of which was not he, but the institute of the monarchy in Russia? Sukhomlinov memoirs help to understand one of the mysteries of the history of Russia in the beginning of the last century.