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Title: Russian Hussar: A Story of the Imperial Cavalry 1911-1920 by Vladimir S. Littauer, Dennis E. Showalter ISBN: 0-942597-53-2 Publisher: White Mane Publishing Co. Pub. Date: April, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A Look at a Forgotten World
Comment: Littauer describes the priveleged life of a Russian cavalry officer in the years immediately preceding the Revolution of 1917. He offers a series of vignettes starting with his days in officers training school. His military duties are interspersed by balls in glittering surroundings, drinking parties in the best clubs of Moscow and Petersburg, and even an impromptu meeting or two with the Tsar. The First World War, with its extended privations, intrudes upon and eventually destroys this idyllic existence. Littauer finally loses not just his life as a hussar, but his place in Russia itself, when the Bolsheviks defeat the White Russian army for which he fights. But he never loses his humor and, apparently, never became bitter about the destruction of a life which he clearly loved.

This is a charming, wonderful book which allows the reader to know, from the inside, a life of privilege and tradition that none of us will be able to experience firsthand. Littauer's affection for the cavalry and for the Russia of his youth are strongly felt, yet never marred by sentimentality or exaggeration. It is a shame that this fascinating work has gone out of print.