Chaffinches in Armor

7 hrs. 31 min.

Language Russian

Author Georgy Venus

Narrator Andrey Leonov

Description

Georgy Davydovich Venus (1898–1939) was born in St. Petersburg to a family descended from German foundry workers invited to Russia under Peter the Great. In World War I, Georgy Venus joined the army as a junior ensign in 1915. He was wounded twice and awarded the George Cross. The horror of the Revolution forced Georgy Venus, like many others, to flee south and join the ranks of the Volunteer Army. Ensign Venus was assigned to the Drozdovsky Volunteer Officers’ Regiment, famous for its bravery on the battlefields of the Don and Crimea. In 1925, now in exile, Georgy Venus wrote this novel based on recollections of those events.

Contents:

[*]Part I (June 1919 — November 1919)
The departure from Kharkov
The first battles
Bogodukhov — Korenovo
“Repairing M. L. Zelikhamer’s clocks”
Evacuation worries
The Skuro General’s hospital
The rear
The cold
Fighting in the encirclement
Baromlya
[*]Part II (November 1919 — March 1920)
Alone near Kharkov
Along empty streets
Kxana
Night in Sloviansk
Iловайське — Taganrog
Near Rostov
Khutor of Romanovsky
Yekaterinodar
First military psychiatric hospital
Novorossiysk
[*]Part III (April 1920 — October 1920)
Easter in Sevastopol
“Credo” of Lieutenant Morozov
Before the offensive
May 25th
The first weeks in Northern Taurida
Camp life
Heidelberg — Vasilievka
Orekhov
Aleksandrovsk and battles along the Dnipro
A chapter about the disabled one