The memoirs of Colonel M. M. Manzhetny cover the first three decades of the twentieth century: service in the cavalry, a separate corps of gendarmes, participation in the Civil war in Siberia and the far East. Later, he found himself in China, where he was forced to serve with various Chinese militarists who were actively forming Russian detachments in those years. Manzhetny's memoirs are unique, because, on the one hand, they describe little-known villages of The civil war in Siberia, and on the other hand, they give first-hand information about the life of a Russian military emigrant in China.The book is intended for specialists, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in the history of Russia in the early twentieth century and Russian emigration.