Vladimir Petrovich Anichkov - Russian banker and entrepreneur, for a long time headed the branch of the Volga-Kama Bank and as a result found himself in the very center of the February and subsequent events in the Urals and Siberia. Soon after the revolution, Anichkov joined the Committee of Public Security. In his book, the author tells how he waited out the red terror in the vicinity of the city of Yekaterinburg. After the Bolsheviks came to power and the nationalization of banks, Anichkov was arrested and later fled. He worked in the Ministry of Finance of the Kolchak government.