The last noble gendarme: how the Tsar's last head of security and intelligence tried to avert the Russian Revolution
Beginnings -- Warsaw, Nizhni Novgorod, and Sevastopol -- As Petrograd's Chief of Security -- And Then, There Was the "Mad Monk" -- The Opportunists -- 1916, Leading to the End -- Turmoil and Arrest -- Sofia Springs into Action -- Incarceration -- Release, Fright, and Flight -- 1919 in Odessa -- Loss -- Constantinople -- Farewell to Constantinople -- The General's Last Assignment -- Toward the End.