About the book: 2016 / Memoirs of Major General M. M. Ivanov (1861–1935) reveal a picture of life in Russia after the Great Reforms 1860–1870s. The reader is presented with the life path of a “man of the people”, who, thanks solely to his hard work and perseverance, achieved significant heights in service and in life. The reader not only follows the ups and downs of the author’s personal life and career, but also witnesses events on a global scale: the Narodnaya Volya assassination attempt on Emperor Alexander II, the presence of Russians in China in the 1890–1900s, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, the establishment of an outpost of the Russian presence on the Pacific Ocean - Vladivostok, the First World War and the Civil War... The author’s service in the Crimea, where he had the opportunity to communicate with the family of the outstanding marine painter I.K. Aivazovsky, the path through the seas and oceans from Odessa to the Far East, etc., is described in bright colors.