Yuri Vladimirovich Makarov is a Russian nobleman, a career officer of the Guard, whose entire military service in old Russia was associated with the famous Semenovsky Regiment founded by Peter I. Immediately after the Cadet school, Yuri Makarov joined the Life Guards Semenovsky Regiment and remained loyal to him all his life, even in those difficult times when the regiment ceased to exist, and his officers who survived the battles of the First World War were scattered not only across Russia, but also around the world. But the memory of their regiment was kept sacred by the former Semenovites.Before the First World War, Yuri Makarov completed officer courses in Oriental languages and was sent to the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but immediately after the outbreak of the war he submitted a report asking to return him to his native regiment. Makarov went through the most difficult periods of the war with his regiment, when his units suffered huge losses, and he was seriously wounded more than once, but after treatment he returned to service…But this book is not only about the war and difficult military service — "balls, beauties, lackeys, junkers" will also pass before the eyes of the reader, as well as many officers and public figures who have left a mark in history — from Colonel of the Preobrazhensky regiment A.P. Kutepov, the future general of the White Army and leader of the monarchists, to the young Semenov, second lieutenant of M.N. Tukhachevsky, the future Soviet marshal… Yuri Makarov gives a broad picture of military life at the beginning of the twentieth century, telling about everything with subtle humor, vividly and figuratively.