9 giug 1919 anni - resigns as leader to save anarchists from Trotsky, sending soviet high command a statement stepping down - to remove any association of his alleged aspirations against them, and remove any excuse to persecute the insurgents. in person he goes to alexandrovsk with his small cavalry detachment, and hands over the command if his Insurrectionary army of anarchists to the freshly installed Bolshevik commander, who was presumably gobsmacked (Il nastro del tempo)