The reign of General Denikin, which lasted a year and a half without three days, forms a holistic, complete era in the history of the "second Russian turmoil." Sokolov writes about this era, who "stood close enough to the government of General Denikin that the main facts of the era were imprinted in his memory more or less accurately." "I talk about what I myself saw and observed, that is, mainly about the life of our military-political center." The book is of particular historical interest, as the memoirs of an eyewitness, a participant in events. The history of the civil war through the eyes of an eyewitness and a direct participant in the events described.