About the book: 2013 / The fate of Lieutenant General Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev is surprising even for the majority of participants in the Civil War in Russia. Having begun his service as a guards officer, Slashchev distinguished himself during the First World War, and ended the Civil War as a corps commander. Once in exile, General Slashchev rethought a lot in his life, which resulted in his return to Soviet Russia and service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. General Slashchev's personality was so bright that it became the prototype of General Khludov in the play by M.A. Bulgakov “Running”. In his new book O.S. Smyslov talks about the difficult fate of the white general who returned to Soviet Russia, and the circumstances of his mysterious murder.