ABSTRACT
[As I have already noted] I was transferred to Kiev in 1880 as chief of operations of the Southwestern Railroad. Subsequently, the company board decided that I should be promoted to the position of manager, but the Ministry of Ways and Communications would not confirm my appointment because I was not an engineer of ways and communications. As a result the engineer Andreevskii was given the position. Although he was a man of strong character, was far more independent then my former chief Baron Ungern-Sternberg, and although he knew something about the work, it was I who provided the ideas and initiative for the reorganization of the railroad’s administration, to make it a more centralized operation than it had been before.
