Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Dates and Spelling
Prologue: Butovo, 1938
Part One. From Page to Public Man, 1865–1904
1. Youth and the Corps of Pages
2. Guardsman and Courtier
3. Love, Labor, Loss
4. Green Snake, Red Flag
Part Two. Alarms and Civil Strife, 1905
5. Storm Signals
6. Moscow Explodes
Part Three. Master of the Province, 1906–1912
7. Learning the Ropes
8. A Governor con Brio
9. Provincial Politics
10. National Pageantry
Part Four. Security Chief, 1913–1915
11. Celebration and Reform
12. A Gendarme Manqué?
13. Mission to Baku
14. In War at Home
15. Riot, Rasputin, Ruin
Part Five. Dzhunkovsky’s War, 1915–1918
16. Finding Peace in War
17. In Dubious Battles: Naroch Lake and After
18. Red Flags at the Front
19. The End of a World
Part Six. In the Shadows, 1918–1938
20. Pensioner, Prisoner, Witness for the Prosecution
21. Before the Bar of Soviet Justice
22. That the Descendants of the Orthodox Might Know
23. Overtaken by the Night
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index