RUSSIAN COLONEL, THE SPANISH SERGEANT
The fifth article of the Spanish cycle is dedicated to the fate of an ordinary officer of the Russian army of General Wrangel - Colonel Dvoychenko who departed in forced exile in November 1920. We found two copies of his records in the funds of the General Military Archive in Segovia (Kingdom of Spain), among an abundance of documents in Spanish in Russian in October 2016. Found documents clearly illustrate the "Way of a Russian officer," of which he wrote one of the leaders of the anti-Bolshevik Russian General Anton Denikin. In it we find a lot of features that are common to many former officers of the Russian Imperial Army, as well as similarities with other biographies «russos blankos»: Generals Shinkarenko and Fock, colonels Gognidzhonashvili, Gursky, Boltin... All those who arrived in Spain in an attempt to rebel any way to return those wonderful times when they were proud of their abandoned homeland, hoping to once again go back, even if in transit through the Iberian peninsula. Balkan War, World War I, the Civil War in Russia, the Civil War in China, the Civil War in Spain, the Chaco War in Paraguay, World War II and many other armed conflicts, which were the generals involved, senior and junior-Whites officers who are often in the new trial given the role of the ordinary soldier. The document reflects the main events of more than half a century, which is easy to fit the usual human life. It is noteworthy that with Colonel Dvoychenko Tercio in Navarre with the August 14, 1938 he fought his nephew, Kovalevsky (Grant) Vladimir Ivanovich. Fate was so pleased that six months after the long-awaited victory Sergeant Spanish Requete and Russian Army Colonel V. Dvoychenko died.