Vladimir Ilyich Sidorin

Russian White movement Imperial establishment and White movement 1882–1943 ○ Died in exile in Berlin

Don Cossack general who led the Don Army of the Armed Forces of South Russia in 1919–1920, then was tried by Wrangel in Crimea

The son of a Don Cossack officer, he served as a staff officer in the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars. After the October Revolution he returned to the Don, fought for Rostov in late 1917 and, as chief of staff to the field atamans Nazarov and Popov, took part in the Steppe March of 1918. In February 1919 he succeeded Denisov as commander of the Don Army of the Armed Forces of South Russia and led it until 27 March 1920, when it was reduced to the Don Corps. After the Novorossiysk evacuation Wrangel put him on trial on 18 April for separatist speeches and the unauthorised retreat of the Don corps; his four years' hard labour was commuted to dismissal. In exile he worked for the Czechoslovak General Staff in Prague, wrote on the Don Army's history, and died in Berlin in 1943.