Volunteer Army founder who led its Officer Regiment on the Ice March and gave his name to the White Markov regiment
A General Staff Academy graduate, he served as Denikin's chief of staff in the First World War, was arrested over the Kornilov affair, escaped to the Don and helped found the Volunteer Army. On the Ice March from February 1918 he led the Combined Officer Regiment, winning at Lezhanka and elsewhere, and after the failed assault on Yekaterinodar in April broke the encirclement at Medvedovskaya, saving the retreating army. Leading the 1st Infantry Division into the Second Kuban Campaign in June, he was mortally wounded by a shell from an armoured train near Shablievka station on 25 June and died the next day. The Officer Regiment was renamed after him and grew into the Markov Division in October 1919.
Also known as: Sergey Markov
Activities and affiliations
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1898–1917
Russian Empire state institutions
Military command -
1917–1918
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1914–1915Chief of staff of the 4th Rifle (Iron) Brigade under Denikin
- 1915–1916Commander of the 13th Rifle Regiment
- 1917Chief of staff of the Western and South-Western Fronts; arrested after the Kornilov affair and held at Bykhov
- 1918Chief of staff of the 1st Volunteer Division; directed the Bataysk front
- 1918Commander of the Combined Officer Regiment on the Ice March, then of the 1st Infantry Brigade
- 1918Commander of the Volunteer Army's 1st Infantry Division; killed near Shablievka at the start of the Second Kuban Campaign