About the book: 2009 / The memoirs of a lieutenant general of the Russian Imperial Army tell about his life’s journey, which led the young man, a participant in the Polish uprising of 1830–1831, to the Caucasus into the ranks of the glorious Erivan regiment ...Many in the Caucasus still remember Apollinary Fomich Rukevich, who served here in the troops continuously from the early thirties to the end of the eighties of the last century and died with the rank of lieutenant general more than twenty years ago.