Preston Fleming
MAID OF BAIKAL
A SPECULATIVE HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
Author’s Introductory Note
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.
List of Characters
*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 Maid’s 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
Zhanna’s 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 Zhanna’s 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 Zhanna’s 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 Maid’s trial at Ryazan
Yushkevich, Yulia Yekaterinovna
Widowed owner of Beregovoy estate near Omsk and mistress of Capt. Ned du Pont
Musical Themes by Chapter
To enhance the reader’s 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 chapter’s 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 Kijé, 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