About the book: 2014 / Memoirs of the infantry general Eduard Vladimirovich Eck (1851–1937) cover the period 1868–1918. The book tells about the time of his service in the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment, as well as about the Russian-Turkish 1877–1878, Russian-Japanese 1904–1905. and the First World War. The author gives a unique picture of the life of the Russian Imperial Army from the power of the 1860s to its collapse in the chaos of the February Revolution of 1917. A huge number of sketches from the military life of the Russian Empire, descriptions of the author’s meetings with major historical figures and bright, colorful images of pre-revolutionary Russia make Eck’s memoirs a truly valuable historical source.