Title: A Cossack galloped far away :
Authors: Feodoroff, Nicholas V.,
Date: 1998
Publisher: Fort Ross,
Physical description: 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: Chapter 1. Childhood -- Father Don -- Memories of Imperial Russia -- School -- Meeting the Emperor -- Images of old Cossacks -- Fishing on the Don River -- First lessons of life -- Fighting youth -- War -- Emperor's abdication and demoralization of the army -- Morals and manners of "revolutionary" masses -- Struggle for power in the government of Don -- The beginning of Civil War -- First partisan detachments -- My first battles -- Bolsheviks in Novocherkassk -- Shell-shock -- "Zaplavsky sitting" -- Clearing the Don from Bolsheviks in 1918 -- Short existence of Donskaya Republic -- Again battles, in the ranks of the volunteer army -- Meeting with brothers at the front line -- Uneasy way to Crimea -- Battles in North Tavria -- Retreat -- Chapter 3. On the way to unknown -- On board of "Alkiviadis" -- Constantinople -- Death camp Chilingir -- Lemnos and my musical career -- Bulgaria, 1921-1926 -- Burgas -- Stara Zagora -- Service and friendship -- Stanimaka -- Agricultural endeavors -- Bulgarian military orchestras -- A few lines from my brother -- Preparations for America -- Chapter 4. America -- First meeting with Americans -- I am the student of Columbia University -- First acquaintances and losses -- My work as a cook -- Student life -- Summer practice in university camp -- Choosing my specialization -- Start of working life -- Hawaii -- Teaching activities in Columbia University -- My students -- Meetings and friends -- Around the world -- Chapter 5. Cossacks outside of Russia -- I am elected Ataman of the Don Cossacks outside of Russia -- Charity fund in memory of P.N. Krasnoff -- Memorial in Lients -- Russian press in the U.S.A. -- Cossacks in Europe -- Day of irreconcilability -- American-Russian Union -- Conclusion -- The Cossacks and their officers -- A horse - the Cossack's friend.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cossacks--United States--Biography.; Don Cossacks--United States--Biography.; Feodoroff, Nicholas V., 1901-