Oprits, I. N. (1886-1964)

Leib-gvardii Kazachii Ego Velichestva Polk [His Majesty’s Life Guards Cossack Regiment during the Revolution and Civil War 1917-1920]

Paris: Izdanie V. Siialskago, 1939. Efremov, S. (cover design). Original publisher's wrappers. Item #320

8vo (28 x 19.5 cm), 365 pages: illustrations, maps. Text in Russian. This edition is limited to 400 copies, with only 150 numbered and inscribed; This is No. 122 copy with a printed ownership leaf of Alexey Alekseevich Tatishchev. The book is in good condition with minor wear, spots, and chips to the wrappers; the text block is clean.

Alexey Alekseevich Tatishchev - official of the Ministry of Agriculture, kammerjunker and memoirist. In November 1920, he was evacuated to Constantinople. 1921 - 1923 he worked in Constantinople under the Red Cross, led by G. V. Glinka and B. E. Ivanitsky. At the beginning of 1923, he arrived in Berlin. Then he moved to Paris, where he served as chief accountant in the Swedish company Alfa Laval for a long time. He was a board member of the Association of Former Students of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. He was a parishioner of the Vvedensky Church in Paris; from 1935-1943, he was an assistant to the churchwarden. He wrote the memoir "Lands and People: Amid the resettlement movement," dedicated to the service in the Resettlement Administration and the events of the Civil War. He died in 1947 in Paris and was buried in the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois cemetery. Shmelev 814.

A scarce emigre publication describing the activities of His Majesty's Life Guards Cossack Regiment during the Revolution and Civil War in 1917-1920.

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