[EDITIONS DE L'ÉMIGRATION] - Lot 387

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[EDITIONS DE L'ÉMIGRATION] - Lot 387
[EDITIONS DE L'ÉMIGRATION] KIRIENKO, Ivan (1881–1971) From Honor and Glory to the Shame of February 1917. Memoirs. São Paulo, 1963. 216 pp., 1 ill. (portrait), publisher’s binding, in-8, B.E. Rare. [EMIGRANT PUBLICATIONS] KIRIENKO Ivan (1881–1971) From Honor and Glory to the Baseness and Shame of February 1917. Memoirs. São Paulo, 1963. 216 pp., 1 ill. (portrait), publisher’s binding, 22.6×15.9 cm., in excellent condition, a rarity. In his book, General I.K. Kirienko asserts that contrary to the prevailing view that General M. Alekseev laid the foundation for the Volunteer Army on November 17, 1917, he personally began its formation as early as November 6, 1917, when he arrived in Novocherkassk with 16 officers and 10 soldiers from the 1st St. George’s Regiment, which he had formed back in August of that same year in Kyiv. The book was met with hostility by the émigré community, which regarded it as “defaming the noble memory of the White leaders.” These memoirs are all the more interesting because members of the Kornilov Association who disagreed with Kirienko—seeing the book as an insult to the memory of General L. Kornilov—boycotted it, and it never went on general sale.
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