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Pyotr Krasnov was a representative of the ancient Don Cossack family, Lieutenant General of the Russian Imperial Army (1917), General of the White Army Сavalry (1918), Ataman of the Almighty Don Army (May 16, 1918 - February 15, 1919), author of articles in the genre of front-line reports (war correspondent in the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905; reporter of the magazines Chasovoy, Russky Invalid, Razvedchik, Vestnik Russkoy Konnitsy). He was also a fiction writer, author of historical novels (From the Two-headed Eagle to the Red Banner (1921-1922), Fallen Leaves (1923), Understand and Forgive (1924), One and Indivisible (1925), Hatred (1930), a trilogy about the Russian intelligentsia (Largo (1928), Ploughed Land (1931), The Feat (1932)), Crown Princess. 1709-1762 (1933), Catherine the Great (1935 ), Regicides (1938)); historical essays on the history and life of the Don Cossacks (Cossacks at the Beginning of the XIX Century: Historical Essay (1896), Ataman Memorandum (1898), Pictures of the Former Quiet Don (1909)); journalistic and artistic essays on military service and the Cossacks (Wagram. Essays and Stories from Military Life (1898), Porcelain Rabbit and the Magic Song (1915), Cossacks' Independence (1922), Soul of the Army ( 1927), On the Eve of the War: From the Life of the Border Garrison (1937)); memoirs (Cossacks in Abyssinia (1898), A Year of War (1905), In the Don Cossack Village under the Bolsheviks (1918), On the Home Front (1920), Almighty Don Host (1922)).
Pyotr Krasnov, by the Imperial Order of 1897, was the Chief of the Convoy of the diplomatic mission in Addis Ababa (Abyssinia). The author’s publication is based on the diary records.