Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kedrov

admiral Михаил Александрович Кедров
Russian White movement Imperial establishment and White movement Russia 1878–1945 ○ Died in exile in Paris

Commander of the Black Sea Fleet who carried Wrangel’s army and some 146,000 people from Crimea to Constantinople in November 1920

In the Russo-Japanese War he was flag officer to Makarov and Vitgeft, was badly wounded at the Yellow Sea and survived Tsushima. In the First World War he commanded the battleship Gangut and the Baltic Fleet's Mine Division, and in 1917 became deputy naval minister and chief of the Naval General Staff of the Provisional Government. During the Civil War he organised supply shipping for the Whites from London on Kolchak's commission. Called by Wrangel to command the Black Sea Fleet on 12 October 1920, he directed the evacuation of Crimea in November, carrying 145,693 people besides the crews to Constantinople, and took the squadron on to Bizerte. In exile in Paris he became a civil engineer and, as deputy chairman of the Russian All-Military Union, briefly acted as its chairman after Miller's abduction in 1937.

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