Kuban Cossack White cavalry general of the Wolf Hundred, later a Nazi collaborator hanged in Moscow
The son of a Kuban Cossack officer, he led the raiding detachment known as the Wolf Hundred in the First World War. In spring 1918 he raised an anti-Bolshevik Cossack unit at Batalpashinsk, raided Stavropol, Kislovodsk and other towns and joined Denikin's Volunteer Army in June, becoming a lieutenant general and cavalry corps commander at thirty-two in 1919. In the march on Moscow his 3rd Kuban Corps took Voronezh on 17 September 1919, but in October Budyonny's cavalry drove him and Mamontov out; Soviet historians describe his troops as particularly cruel and given to looting. Dismissed by Wrangel, he emigrated in 1920, and in 1944 took charge of the Cossack Reserve under the SS main office. Handed to the Soviet Union by the British in 1945, he was hanged in Moscow with Krasnov in January 1947.
Also known as: Andrey Shkuro · Andrei Shkura
Activities and affiliations
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1918–1920
Military command
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1941–1945
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1907Graduated from the Nicholas Cavalry School; posted to the 1st Uman Cossack Regiment
- 1914–1917First World War: commanded the Kuban special cavalry detachment, the Wolf Hundred
- 1918Raised an anti-Bolshevik Cossack unit at Batalpashinsk; took Stavropol and joined the Volunteer Army
- 1918Commander of the Caucasian Cavalry Division; major general
- 1919Lieutenant general and cavalry corps commander; took and lost Voronezh with the 3rd Kuban Corps
- 1920Dismissed by Wrangel; emigrated in May
- 1944–1945Head of the Cossack Reserve under the SS main office of Nazi Germany
- 1945–1947Captured by the British, handed to the Soviet Union, sentenced to death and hanged