Illustrations

Augustus Agar

Petrograd street scene

A soldier working for the Cheka forces his way through a window

Suspects marched through the streets of Petrograd

A suspect is stopped and searched in a Petrograd street

The frozen bodies of victims of the Cheka

John Hampsheir

Edgar Sindall

Richard Marshall

Hugh Beeley

CMBs on their storage racks at Osea Island

The engine compartment of a CMB

The layout of a 40-ft CMB

CMB4 and CMB7 on tow behind HMS Voyager

The view aft from a 40-ft CMB

Hugh Beeley, Albert Piper and Vic Jones

Villa Sakharov, Terrioki

Dinah, the team mascot

The daughter of the housekeeper at the Villa Sakharov

Ed Sindall rendering aid to a Russian refugee

John Hampsheir and Raleigh Le May

Vic Jones and John Busby

The Russian Orthodox Church, Terrioki

Gefter

Peter Sokolov

Peter Sokolov at the 1912 Olympics (Author’s Collection)

Playing deck quoits aboard the Fennia

The team victorious

The Oleg (Author’s Collection)

Kronstadt Harbour

HMS Vindictive

Bill Bremner arrives at Biorko Sound with CMB79

Two 55-ft CMBs reach attack speed

Richard Marshall

The wreck of CMB7

Agar salutes CMB4, 1967

Paul Dukes on the eve of his knighthood (National Portrait Gallery)

Unless otherwise attributed, all photographs are courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, London