Abstract to the book 'Admiral Kolchak. The dictator involuntarily' Cherkashin N. A.: "The Supreme ruler of Russia", the leader of the White Movement during the Civil War — this is what, first of all, we remember when talking about the hero of the book. But that's not all. Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak is an outstanding Arctic explorer (Kolchak-Polar — so, almost officially, he was called in the Russian geographical community; an island in the Kara Sea is named after him), a hero of the Russo-Japanese and World War I wars, an organizer of minefields in the Baltic that did not allow the German fleet to break through to Petrograd (as in those years called St. Petersburg), commander of the Black Sea Fleet… The author of the documentary and artistic narrative, writer and historian Nikolai Andreevich Cherkashin tells about the sharp turns in the biography of A.V. Kolchak, as well as about his amazing love and two women in his fate. Read more…