White Army, Red Army

Abstract

My father was a Bolshevik partisan; he didn’t want to keep his father’s surname—a tsarist colonel and White Army soldier. He was the illegitimate child of this colonel, an aristocrat, and his governess. After his wife’s death, Colonel Lutin married my grandmother and gave my father a first-class education. However, everything unraveled during the Revolution. My father turned against his own father and half-brother; he even fought against them. Afterward, they both emigrated while my grandmother fled to Moscow with Father.