The collection includes documentary and journalistic works about the Russian Imperial Army, written by General P.N. Krasnov in exile. According to the author himself, he was prompted to write memoirs by the appearance in the Soviet press in the 1920s and 30s of streams of dirt and slander that were poured out on the former Imperial Army by apologists for Bolshevism. Memories vividly and reliably paint pictures of the military life and events of the author's life, including his cadet and cadet years, command of regiments on the eastern and western borders of the Russian Empire, some events of the First World War.