After the October Revolution, 26-year-old front-line soldier of World War I Sergey Bezobrazov returned to his native Tashkent and was shocked: there was hunger, dying people lay in the streets, a typhus epidemic raged, and gangs of marauders operated on the outskirts. Moreover, "old" officers began to be recruited into the Red Army. Bezobrazov did not want to serve the Bolsheviks and secretly organized a resistance group. Soon he was appointed chief of staff of the Pamir border detachment, where he arrived with his comrades. That is where the escape plan was born.

On the night of November 1, they tied up the Red Army soldiers, took their weapons, and fled. Their path lay through the Pamir Mountains towards India, where they hoped to find freedom. The crossing was difficult: they traveled in winter conditions, starved, faced the threat of avalanches, and periodically had to fend off Afghan gangs.

However, peaceful negotiations also took place. Once, the group of whites was brought to the local akim. He asked Bezobrazov why they were fleeing Russia and what the Bolsheviks wanted. The captain recalled that he replied: if the Bolsheviks penetrate Afghanistan, they will overthrow the emir and establish a republic. The akim smirked, saying that this was impossible in Afghanistan. Sixty years later, the Soviet-Afghan war began.

At the end of November, Bezobrazov's detachment crossed the border into India and surrendered to the local authorities. Most of the fugitives wanted to join the whites in the Far East. Bezobrazov served in Kolchak's army, then in Semenov's, participated in the Siberian Ice March, and after the defeat, emigrated to Harbin. There he headed the local ROVS and worked as a teacher in a gymnasium. In 1945, the Red Army arrived, and the Chekists arrested the most active "former" members. Sergey Bezobrazov was sentenced and executed in 1946.