About the book: 2017 / White General Vasily Georgievich Boldyrev is a mysterious figure. At first he called the Soviet government “a red nightmare that crushes and strangles the Motherland.” In the fall of 1918 he became a member of the Directory and was appointed commander-in-chief. During the military coup, when the Directory was arrested and the Council of Ministers elected Kolchak as the supreme ruler of Russia, Boldyrev was in Ufa. If he had been in Omsk, history could have taken a different path, because some of the officers supported the general, and he had every chance of becoming a ruler. In 1922, the Reds entered Vladivostok. Boldyrev, instead of leaving for Japan, stayed in the city and was arrested. After serving time in prison, he got a job at the Siberian Planning Commission. Lived in Novosibirsk. In 1933 he was shot for “counter-revolutionary activities.”».