Readers are offered a collection of works written by a man of difficult and extraordinary fate, Russian, and later Paraguayan naval officer Yazon Konstantinovich Tumanov (1883-1955). During his life, he witnessed and directly participated in the Russo-Japanese and World War I, shed blood for his country. And during the Civil War, Y.K. Tumanov did not remain an outside observer: he did not accept the new government and fought against the Reds with weapons in his hands.