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AST
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ISBN-13: 9785171592080Synopsis
The memoirs of a Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army in 1912-1914, when the Mongols defended their independence from China, intertwined the siege of the Bar-Khoto fortress occupied by the Chinese, love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, World War I, deportation from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. Here the hero rethinks his own life, and thereby the fate of man in critical situations.