The book includes the memoirs of participants in the campaigns of Russian troops in the mountains of Kopet-Dag and the Pamirs at the end of the 19th century. In his essays, A. A. Mayer talks about the assault and capture of Geok-Tepe in January 1881, about the events that preceded that. He devotes many pages to the "White General" - Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev. Memoirs are published according to the publication of 1886. The essays and stories of B. L. Tageev tell about the history of the conquest of Central Asia, the insidious policy of Great Britain in Afghanistan, the hostilities of Russian troops in the Pamirs in 1892-1893. Printed according to the publication of 1900