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They said to him: “You are free:
We respect your uniform.
But the Cossacks are not pleasing to us,
Unfortunately, you are their commander ... "

There were trains ... They shouted to him:
"Goodbye, our Father-General!"
And he, like steel
One silently missed them ...

When to death and suffering
The last train left
To your enemies without hesitation
He returned calmly himself.

Told them: “Everywhere with the Cossacks
I was, like with brothers, in battle.
I want the trial of us all
But do not spare my fate. "

And those who apparently didn’t know
What is the meaning and power of the word "Honor",
He was betrayed with contempt
Inevitable death.

Poem of a white emigrant Cossack I.I. Sagatsky, published in the Cossack magazine "Beloved Land" (Paris, No. 94, May-June 1971).