Cossack general who as Omsk garrison chief arrested the Directory ministers in November 1918 and opened the way for Kolchak
The son of a Siberian Cossack officer, he won the Order of St George in the First World War for capturing a Turkish banner at Ardahan. On 31 May 1918 he led one of the first anti-Soviet risings in Siberia, at Petropavlovsk, and in September became Omsk garrison chief. On the night of 17 November he and Krasilnikov arrested Avksentiev, Zenzinov, Argunov and Rogovsky, opening the way for Kolchak; acquitted and made major general, he moved against Semyonov but was stopped by the Japanese. In 1919 he led a Cossack corps and a cavalry group at Ufa and Chelyabinsk, and on 10 February 1920 he was killed when the Reds ambushed his column near Irkutsk.
Activities and affiliations
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1897–1917
Russian Empire state institutions
Military command -
1918–1920
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1897Graduated from the Alexander Military School; cornet in the 1st Siberian Cossack Regiment
- 1914–1917Caucasus front in the First World War; Order of St George, 4th class, at Ardahan
- 1918Led the anti-Soviet rising at Petropavlovsk
- 1918Altai expedition; destroyed Sukhov's detachment
- 1918Omsk garrison chief; led the Omsk coup
- 1918–1919Commander of the East Siberian Separate Army; moved against Semyonov
- 1919Chief of the Irkutsk Military District
- 1919Commander of the Consolidated Cossack Corps and the Southern Cavalry Group
- 1919–1920Commander of the Siberian Cossack Group; Great Siberian Ice March