“Many of the officers were of the Great Russian persuasion.” From the memories of Colonel D.N. Tikhobrazov about Ukraine in 1919
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Ganin A.V.
Ganin Andrey V., Doctor of Science (History), Leading research fellow, Institute of Regional Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, HSE University, build. 1, 21/4, Staraya
Basmannaya St., Moscow, 105066, Russia.
andrey_ganin@mail.ru
Abstract. The material is the first publication of an excerpt from the memoirs of Colonel D.N. Tikhobrazov about the events in Ukraine in late 1918 — early 1919, when the
memoirist and his companions fled from the advancing Soviet troops, traveling from Kremenchuk to Odessa. The latter was then under the occupation of the Entente forces.
His memoirs are valuable source on the history of the Civil war and are kept in the Bakhmetev Archives of Russian and East European History and Culture in New York.
Keywords: Civil war, revolution, Ukraine, officers, D.N. Tikhobrazov.
For citation: Ganin A.V. “Many of the officers were of the Great Russian persuasion.” From the memories of Colonel D.N. Tikhobrazov about Ukraine in 1919, in Novoe Proshloe / The New Past. 2026. No 1. Pp. 204–222. DOI 10.18522/2500-3224-2026-1-204-222.
The article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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