Preston Fleming - Maid of Baikal

Maid of Baikal tells the story of how the White Russian Armies might have deserved to win the Russian Civil War, and thus might have won, in a better world than ours. For despite the Whites manifold sins, the best among them strived mightily to achieve a free and democratic Russia, and most of these suffered a worse fate than what they deserved.

*An asterisk indicates a character who is an actual historical personage.

*Barrows, Col. David Prescott

Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Army, AEF/Vladivostok

Borisov, Boris Viktorovich (Paladin)

Standard Bearer to the Maid of Baikal

*Buckner, Col. Edmund G.

Chief Lobbyist for the DuPont Company

Buckner, Corinne

Daughter of Col. Buckner

*Chapayev, Maj. Gen. Vasily

Division Commander, Fourth Red Army

*Denikin, Gen. Anton Ivanovich

Commander, Armed Forces of South Russia (White)

*Dieterichs, Gen. Mikhail Konstantinovich

Military Advisor to Admiral Kolchak

Dorokhin, Stepan Petrovich

Father of Zhanna, Maid of Baikal

Dorokhina, Zhanna Stepanovich

Maid of Baikal

du Pont, Capt. Edmund (Ned)

U.S. Army, RRSC, AEF/Vladivostok

*du Pont, Pierre Samuel

President, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

*Embry, John

U.S. Consul, Omsk

*Frunze, Gen. Mikhail Vasilyevich

Commander, Southern Army Group, Eastern Front, Red Army

Fyodor (Bishop Fyodor)

Judge at the Maids trial in Ryazan

*Gaida, Major General

Commander, Northern Army, Siberian Armed Forces

*Graves, Gen. William S.

Commander, U.S. Army, AEF/Vladivostok

*Guins, Georgi (George) Konstantinovich

Assistant to Admiral Kolchak/Finance Minister

Holt, Col. Charles

Staff Officer, U.S. Army, War Department

Ivashov, Staff Capt. Igor Ivanovich

Staff Officer, General Staff, Siberian Armed Forces

*Kappel, Gen. Vladimir Oskarovich

Division Commander, Western Army, Siberian Armed Forces

*Khanzin, Gen. Mikhail V.

Commander, Western Army, Siberian Armed Forces

*Knox, Maj. Gen. Alfred A.W. T.

Chief, British Military Mission to Siberia

*Kolchak, Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich

Supreme Ruler, Commander in Chief, Provisional Siberian Government

Kostrov, Kirill Matveyevich

Zhannas uncle, brother of her deceased mother

*Lebedev. Maj. Gen. Dimitry Antonovich

Chief of Staff, Siberian Armed Forces

*Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Bolshevik Party Leader, Premier of the Soviet Union

Leo, (Father Leo)

Chief Examiner at Zhannas trial

*Lloyd George, David

British Prime Minister

McCloud, Mark Evans

American syndicated journalist in Russia

*Morris, William

U.S. High Commissioner to Siberia

*Neilson, Lt. Col. John

Intelligence officer, British Military Mission at Omsk

Nestor (Father Nestor)

Deputy Examiner at Zhannas trial

Panin, Colonel

Staff Officer, Western Army, Siberian Armed forces, at Ufa

*Preston, Sir Thomas

British Consul at Omsk

Rawlings, Lt. Col.

Intelligence officer, British Military Mission at Ufa

*Regnault, Eugene

French High Commissioner to Siberia

*Reilly, Sidney (aka Zhelezin)

Russian-born intelligence operator for Great Britain

Ryumin, Father Timofey Makarovich

Russian Orthodox priest

*Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich

Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party leader

*Sukin, Ivan

Minister of Foreign Affairs (Acting), Siberian Provisional Government

Sweeney, Jake

American Red Cross official in Siberia

*Sylvester (Archbishop Sylvester)

Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Omsk

*Timiryova, Anna Vasilyevna

Mistress of Admiral Kolchak

*Tolstov, Gen. Vladimir Sergeyevich

Commander, Ural Cossack Host

*Trotsky, Leon

Chairman of Supreme Military Council, Red Army, Politburo Member

*Volkov. Gen. Vyacheslav Ivanovich

Governor-General of Irkutsk Province

*Ward, Colonel John

Commander, Middlesex Regiment, British Military Mission at Omsk

*Wilson, Thomas Woodrow

President of the United States of America

*Wrangel, Gen. Pyotr Nikolayevich

Commander, Caucasus Volunteer Army (White)

*Yudenich, Gen. Nikolay Nikolayevich

Commander, White Russian Forces in Northwestern Russia

*Yurovsky, Yakov Mikhailovich

Senior Cheka official responsible for the Maids trial at Ryazan

Yushkevich, Yulia Yekaterinovna

Widowed owner of Beregovoy estate near Omsk and mistress of Capt. Ned du Pont

To enhance the readers enjoyment, I have created a musical score for Maid of Baikal, consisting of selections by Russian composers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Each selection is intended to evoke the emotions of the chapter to which it is assigned.

For maximum enjoyment, I recommend listening to the chapters musical selection before reading. Each piece is available (with free sampling) on iTunes, and most can be downloaded without cost at Classic Cat or Wikipedia.

Chapter 1: Spartacus & Phrygia, Adagio, by Aram Khachaturian

Chapter 2: The Seasons, Op. 67, Summer, by Alexander Glazunov

Chapter 3: Valse-Fantasie in B Minor, by Mikhail Glinka

Chapter 4: Ballet Suite No. 4, I. Prelude, by Dmitri Shostakovich

Chapter 5: Masquerade Suite, IV. Romance, by Aram Khachaturian

Chapter 6: The Seasons, Op. 67, Autumn, Adagio, by Alexander Glazunov

Chapter 7: Lieutenant Kij, Symphonic Suite, Op. 60, II. Romance, by Sergei Prokofiev

Chapter 8: Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5, by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chapter 9: Serenade in C Major for String Orchestra, Op. 48, Pezzo in Forma di Sonatina: Andante Non Troppo, Allegro Moderato, by Igor Stravinsky

Chapter 10: Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2, by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chapter 11: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene XIII, Dance of the Knights, by Sergei Prokofiev

Chapter 12: Zaporozhye Cossacks, Op. 64, Introduction, by Reinhold Glire

Chapter 13: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47, IV. Allegro Non Troppo, by Dmitri Shostakovich

Chapter 14: Pictures at an Exhibition, No. 10, The Great Gate at Kiev, by Modest Mussorgsky

Chapter 15: Jazz Suite No. 2, 6. Waltz II, by Dmitri Shostakovich

Chapter 16: Pictures at an Exhibition, No. 9, Baba Yaga or The Hut on Fowls Legs, by Modest Mussorgsky

Chapter 17: Masquerade Suite, I. Waltz, by Aram Khachaturian

Chapter 18: Mlada Suite, Procession of the Nobles, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Chapter 19: The Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance, by Igor Stravinsky

Chapter 20: Pictures at an Exhibition, No. 8, Catacombs, by Modest Mussorgsky

Chapter 21: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27, I. Largo, Allegro Moderato, by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chapter 22: Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Epilog, Juliets Funeral, by Sergei Prokofiev

Chapter 23: Novorossiysk Chimes (The Fires of Eternal Glory), by Dmitri Shostakovich