The White Guard
From the album “Illustrations by Victor Prokofiev and Co”
“Division, attention!” he suddenly roared, so that the division instinctively flinched. “The Hetman, at about four o'clock this morning, shamefully abandoned all of us to our fate and fled! In no more than a few hours, we will witness a catastrophe when people like you, deceived and drawn into this adventure, will be killed like dogs. I, a career officer who went through the war with the Germans, take the responsibility upon my conscience! I am sending you home!”