About the book: 2024 / Rear Admiral Alexander Dmitrievich Bubnov dedicated the book of his memoirs to the events of the First World War. From the beginning of the war, he was at the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and served there until the October events of 1917. In July 1916, Bubnov received the rank of captain 1st rank “for distinguished service.” He became a rear admiral a year later, in July 1917, already under the Provisional Government. The admiral divides his service at Headquarters into three periods - under Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, who led the Russian army until August 1915, under Emperor Nicholas II, who assumed the responsibilities of Supreme Commander-in-Chief, and under the power of the Provisional Government, which was replaced in a few months after February 1917 a number of commanders in chief. HELL. Bubnov analyzes the course of military operations during this period and makes a number of interesting, although not indisputable, conclusions. As a person personally involved in many events, he is well aware of facts that remained unknown to people from the outside. For example, the epic with the preparation of the Bosphorus operation, which, alas, did not take place, is familiar to him in small details, since he himself was involved in developing these plans at Headquarters. In 1918, he managed to get to Odessa and join the White movement. Admiral Kolchak, who knew Bubnov well, included him in the delegation that was supposed to represent the interests of Russia at the Versailles Peace Conference after the end of the First World War. But the white Russian delegation was not allowed to the conference - for the allies, Russia became a played card. Returning to Russia, A.D. Bubnov was appointed in 1919 to the post of chief of staff of the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral A.V. Nenyukova. And in 1920 he and his family went into exile, never to return to Russian shores.…