Famous memoirs of the former curator of the former general of the Red Army Vlasov. Wilfried Karlovich Shtrik-Shtrikfeldt was born in 1897 in Riga. He studied at the Reformed Gymnasium in St. Petersburg and graduated in 1915. In the same year he volunteered for the Russian army, received an officer rank, fought until the end of the First World War. In 1918-20 participated in the liberation struggle against the Bolsheviks in the Baltic states and near St. Petersburg. Then for four years he worked under the mandate of the International Red Cross and the Nansen famine relief service in Russia. After that he studied (economics, law). In 1924-39 represented German and English enterprises in Riga. In 1941-45 - Translator and officer of the German army. The closest employee and friend of A. A. Vlasov. He died on September 7, 1977 in Oberstaufen (southern Bavaria).