Ivan Nikolayevich Krasilnikov

Russian White movement Imperial establishment and White movement 1888–1920 Circumstances of death disputed

Siberian Cossack ataman who was first into Irkutsk in 1918, joined the Omsk coup and led brutal anti-partisan raids

Born at Iletsk into a Siberian Cossack family, he fought on the Caucasus front in the First World War and was wounded near Erzurum in 1916, losing the use of his left arm. With the Cossack partisan detachment he raised at Omsk in 1918 he was first into Irkutsk on 11 July, and in October he broke the Omsk general strike, shooting five activists before the crowd. A monarchist, he took part in the Omsk coup in November, his men holding the arrested ministers, and was acquitted at trial. In 1919 he led an anti-partisan force that took Shchetinkin's base at Taseyevo in April but became notorious for its brutality; he died at Irkutsk in January 1920, of typhus by one account, killed by another.

Also known as: Ivan Krasilnikoff