17 März 1921 Jahr - "At dawn on March 17, we resumed the march
toward Novospasovka, but after 17 versts on the road
we met a new and quite fresh force of Bolsheviks.
They had been sent after Kurilenko, but having lost
sight of him, they fell on us. After pursuing us for 25
versts (we were completely exhausted and really in-
capable of fighting), these horsemen threw themselves
on us. What were we to do? I was not only incapable
of getting into the saddle; I could not even sit up. I
was lying in the bottom of the cart, and saw