The Sketches from the cavalry life

This book by Vsevolod Krestovsky contains the sketches about the life of the military men in the peaceful time, about the routines of the campaigns: "From the staff to the winter flats", "The market day in Svislotch", "On the grass", "The Raid against the geese", "The military hangers-on", "Buyanov - is my neighbor", "Who is better?". The united image of the Russian soldier attracts the reader by its sense of humor, carelessness and simultaneously by the responsibility, devotedness to the things you do.