Senior Lieutenant Budrevičius's memoirs about joining the Lithuanian Army and the formation of the first regiment

The memoirs emphasize the experience of Senior Lieutenant Budrevičius and his joy that the formation of national Lithuanian regiments in the Russian Empire had begun. Upon learning that Lithuania had declared Independence, Senior Lieutenant Budrevičius set off on foot from Moscow to Vilnius. The memoirs clearly state that their author returned on foot from Moscow to Vilnius via Smolensk.

Returning to Lithuania, the officer was overcome by a strange feeling, because nothing was left at home, the entire farm was burned, and the landowner Aleksandravičius organized the Polish army. Senior Lieutenant Budrevičius decided to join the Lithuanian army, which he did. After starting his service, he discovered a Polish spy - volunteer Sabaliauskas, but the latter, avoiding arrest, himself left the 2nd PP.

The memoirs tell how Senior Lieutenant Budrevičius taught Lithuanian soldiers how to use a machine gun, how he received weapons from the German army, but the next day the Germans searched the apartment looking for weapons and did not find them. The experience is described, how weapons hidden in mattresses from the German administration were transported to Alytus, how the Germans wanted to disarm Lithuanian army patrols in Alytus, which led to a major conflict. Senior Lieutenant Budrevičius also describes the first battles of the Lithuanian army with the Bolsheviks, an attempt to rescue weapons from the Saratov barracks. During the battles, the author of the memoirs was taken prisoner by the Bolsheviks, where he was beaten, interrogated, and stabbed with daggers, but after three days he managed to escape.