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The Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his wife, Sofia. Tsar Nicholas II's last chief of security, Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 1915 he tried to avert the unrest that grew into a revolution replete with mayhem and violence by cautioning his senior government officials about the growing crisis through meetings and written reports. The incompetence and corruption of his superiors caused Globachev's warnings of an impending disaster to be often disregarded, misunderstood, and sometimes rejected flat out. The warnings of Globachev's security and intelligence agency going unheeded helped lead imperial Russia to its cataclysmic destruction—perhaps a metaphor for our times. Following the revolution, Globachev was detained by the new government, but released and forced to flee with his family after the Bolsheviks gained power. Globachev and his family survived the revolution, the subsequent civil war and exile in Turkey. The final chapter of their dramatic adventure was their immigration to the United States, where they became citizens. Now, through their complete biographies, we get to know them as individuals who lived through the most tempestuous and dangerous of times.

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Author:   Vladimir G. Marinich
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438486000

ISBN 10:   1438486006
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   02 July 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Beginnings 2. Warsaw, Nizhni Novgorod, and Sevastopol 3. As Petrograd's Chief of Security 4. And Then, There Was the ""Mad Monk"" 5. The Opportunists 6. 1916, Leading to the End 7. Turmoil and Arrest 8. Sofia Springs into Action 9. Incarceration 10. Release, Fright, and Flight 11. 1919 in Odessa 12. Loss 13. Constantinople 14. Farewell to Constantinople 15. The General's Last Assignment 16. Toward the End 17. Conclusion Appendix A: Globachev's Service Record and Biographical Outline Appendix B: How the Okhrana Was Run Appendix C: Ministerial Leapfrog Appendix D: Annotated List of Names Appendix E: Glossary of Terms Notes Bibliography Index"

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Vladimir G. Marinich is Professor Emeritus of History at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. He is the translator of The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife, by Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva, also published by SUNY Press.

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