====== Extract form Memoirs of Major General Richie Suness (published Paris 1929)
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Following the fall of the Viceroy I was left in charge of ‘The Valley’ and while holding the territory and acting as a clarion call to the scattered forces loyal to our beloved Tzar. I awaited the inevitable advance of the Red hordes. Whatever my eventual fate and the fate of the Imperial family my first task was to secure the local territory as a bastion against the dreaded Bolshevik  
At my disposal I had the Following Troops:-

Remnants of Viceroy's Infantry organised into four companies.
Two companies of the Czech Legion. well trained they have been seperated from their main body.
Two Squadrons of Cavalry. one a band of ex-imperial Cossacks the other part on my original escort assigned by the Viceroy. A support group armed with mortars and a few heavy machine guns.

In the valley is also a train which can be swifty converted into an armed if not armoured train. There is surficent stockpile of coal and ammunition for one mission.
Currently I am at Sturgeni with my main Supplys at Trusskov awaiting news of the Bolshevik approah.