The epic novel by General Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov “From the Double-Headed Eagle to the Red Banner” tells the history of Russian society, and above all of the Russian Imperial Army, over more than a quarter of a century—from 1894 to 1922. During this period, Russia was shaken by three wars and three revolutions that, in the end, halted its orderly historical development. These dramatic events are reflected in the fate of the novel’s main character—Alexander Sablín—through whom the reader walks the path from ensign to general, from events of carefree youth to a martyr’s death in the cells of the Cheka.
P. N. Krasnov considered this book his main work, his most important creation. Even during the author’s lifetime, the novel was translated into all European languages, and among the Russian émigré community it was regarded as equal in scale and power of depicting historical events to L. N. Tolstoy’s epic “War and Peace.”
The novel was read from the 2nd corrected edition by the author, published by the publishing house “Olga Dyakova and Co” in Berlin in 1922.