Адмирал Колчак, верховный правитель России

This well-documented biography of the Russian polar explorer and hydrologist, naval officer A. V. Kolchak (1873-1920) who by a capricious turn of historical events became an admiral and the head of the Russian government in Siberia. He was a participant in three Arctic expeditions, defended the Russian port of Port Arthur, led the Black Sea fleet in WWI. In the middle of the Civil War he became the commander-in-chief of the White Army, overturned Soviet power in the Far East, and created the short lived Far Eastern Republic with its capital in Omsk. The author investigates the personal views of Aleksandr Kolchak, his intellectual search, illusions and mistakes. Chronology of Kolchak's life.