21 April/4 May 1917

A new officer, Colonel Yevgeny Kobylinsky, has arrived, and Papa says this is good news. The colonel has been wounded twice and was even a patient in one of our hospitals. Papa says he’s loyal to us, but that he must do his duty as a soldier and we must not make his job more difficult.

I keep thinking how nice it would be if Mashka’s Kolya would be assigned here, but she has heard nothing from him in months and fears the worst.