1874–1967
○ Died in exile in France
Wrangel’s general who led the Combined Corps out at Chongar in June 1920 and later took over Kutepov’s 1st Corps
From the Don Cossack nobility, he served in Don Cossack regiments in the First World War and in early 1918, though a colonel, joined the Volunteer Army as a private and took part in the Ice March. In 1919 he commanded the 1st Kuban Corps and the Tsaritsyn garrison, then a combined corps of the Caucasian Army. After the loss of Novorossiysk in spring 1920 he gathered some 15,000 Don and Kuban Cossacks who refused to surrender and shipped them to Crimea, and became commandant of Sevastopol. From late May he led the Combined Corps, which broke out at Chongar into Northern Taurida in June and defeated Zhloba's cavalry corps, and from August he commanded the 1st Army Corps in Kutepov's place until the last battles at Perekop. In exile in France he was elected Don ataman in 1953, and he died in 1967.
Also known as: Piotr Pisarev
Activities and affiliations
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1898–1918
Russian Empire state institutions
Military command -
1918–1920
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1898Commissioned into the 5th Don Cossack Regiment
- 1914–1918Squadron commander and deputy commander of the 42nd Don Cossack Regiment
- 1918Joined the Volunteer Army; Ice March; commander of the Alekseyev partisan regiment
- 1918–1919Brigade commander in the Volunteer Army and the Crimean-Azov Army
- 1919Commander of the 6th Infantry Division; commander of the 1st Kuban Corps and the Tsaritsyn garrison
- 1919–1920Commander of the 4th Combined Corps of the Caucasian Army and of a Kuban Army group
- 1920Evacuated some 15,000 Cossacks after the fall of Novorossiysk
- 1920Commandant of the fortress and governor of Sevastopol
- 1920Commander of the Russian Army’s Combined Corps; Northern Taurida offensive
- 1920Commander of the 1st Army Corps; Perekop
- 1920–1921Representative of the Don ataman in Greece
- 1953Elected Don ataman in exile