title: “Gradually, a Turning Point Occurred, and the Idea to End an Armed Struggle Arose”
abstract: The article is dedicated to the biography of Colonel N.F. Sokolovsky, a mysterious historical figure who played a significant role in the Russian Civil War. In 1919, Sokolovsky was a military expert serving in the Kiev Provincial Military Commissariat and the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. At the same time, he was also a prominent figure of the White underground in Ukraine. After the occupation of Kiev by White forces, he defected to them a
journal: Slavic World in the Third Millennium