About the book: year / V.V. Berg in “The Last Midshipmen” in a fascinating description sets out the history of the birth of the naval corps in Sevastopol, during the Civil War, immortalizing in the short, certainly tragic, but at the same time glorious history of the Naval Corps the name of its main creator - the energetic and ebullient Rear Admiral Mashukov ... In an artistic and talented description, V. Berg depicts the entire life of the Corps, both internal and external, in the short Sevastopol period and the longer Bizerte period on the northern coast of the African continent... The book is filled with various episodes “accompanying the life of the Corps...” (from a review Zh.N. Alekseeva, newspaper “Russian Invalid”, No. 26, October 7, 1931.