White Russian/British Caspian flotilla 1919

[Felix C]

Thank you Mischa. I admit diaries, memoirs and contemporary fiction provide a great deal of atmosphere to be able to properly understand the actions of participants.

I have read a number of diaries and memories from the British expeditionary forces which occupied/loss/reoccupied Baku and their comments as to the local situation are near impossible to fathom. I am fortunate to not have been involved in civil war. My family has and commented on the constant violence of the period and uncertainty as to which faction occupied one's neighborhood from one period to another.

[Mischa]

Thank you Mischa. I admit diaries, memoirs and contemporary fiction provide a great deal of atmosphere to be able to properly understand the actions of participants.

Hi, a small correction. The Dreadnought of the Caspian Sea (152 mm - guns) was really Emmanuel Nobel not and Emil like in Vritish suurces stay. This confirms the best in Russian published source of the White Russian naval officer, Nikolay Nikolayevich Lishin (Лишин Николай Николаевич), a book about his service with the British, but also under Andrew's flag, which fluttered on the HMS President Krüger wrote. He wrote his memories undet the title: "На Каспийском море. Год Белой борьбы" = On the Caspian Sea. A year of struggle whites. In 1940, he lived in Riga or Tallinn, there are discrepancies, where he was arrestet of the NKVD and was shot in Mosow in June 1941 to death after a trial,to beeing a white, a "traitor" of the workers - was and peasants' state.

Here is his great book can be found. Who is the Russian language is powerful, which will certainly please.
And about the situation in Baku, I would add something later.

http://www.ourbaku.com/index.php5/%D0%9 ... 0%B0%D0%BD.
Regards
Mischa