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By Albert Seaton, Michael Youens

ISBN-10: 0850451167

ISBN-13: 9780850451160

This ebook explores the uniforms, gear, heritage and agency of the Cossacks all through their army background. Russian, Ukranian and Zaporozhian Cossacks are all lined, and their studies lower than the Tsars and the Soviet Union are explored. Uniforms are proven in complete color art.

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Vgl. W. Lcvcrmann, S. 79 f. , S. 184 f Vgl. Nasch Wck Nr. 04. ) 1918, Titcl: Ncubcginn dcr russisehcn Banken. 04. war das Datum nach dem julianischen Kalender). V gl. W. Levermann, S. 196 f. Vgl. 1918, Nr. 82. Vgl. Leonid Jurowski: Impressionen. ), S. 124. Auch Jurowski (geboren 1884, hingeriehtet 1(38) war ein SchUler von Struwe am Petersburgcr Polytechnikum. Der Artike1 ist wiedergegeben in: I. Lewin Aktienhandelsbanken ... , 2010, S. 347-358. Die folgende Darstcllung bezicht sich daraut: nicht auf die Originalquclle.

Einige Monate spater war er wieder in Moskau, wohnte unter falschem Namen, und gab die letzte Ausgabe von Russkaja Mysl heraus, bevor sie im Juli 1918 verboten wurde. Er engagierte sich im Rechten Zentrum, einer liberparteilichen, anti-bolschewistischen Gruppierung, und t10h im August VOl' dem "roten Terror". Bis November lebte er versteckt auf dem Lande und ging dann liber Petrograd nach Finnland. Die direkte Route nach Helsinki war stark kontrolliert. Struwe nahm daher den Weg am westlichen Ufer des Ladoga-Sees - beschwerlicher, abel' weniger riskant.

O I Ehrenburg sah Berlin 1921 als DreiBigjiihriger, hatte schon Essays, Gedichte und seinen ersten Roman geschrieben. Lew Nussimbaum, zuniichst emigriert nach Konstantinopel, kam im selben Jahr. Er war noch Gymnasiast, knapp siebzehn Jahre alt und ahnte nicht, dass er in Berlin zum gefeierten Schriftsteller Essad Bey werden sollte. Nach Berlin brachte ihn sein Vater: ein ehemaliger Olmillioniir aus Baku, der fast alles verloren hatte, seine Wohnung dennoch in "Charlottengrad" nahm und seinen Sohn ins Russische Gymnasium gab.

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