People of the Revolution and the USSR
Military command
Imperial establishment and White movement
The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917
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- Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin Дмитрий Алексеевич Милютин The Great Reforms' military architect, who forged Russia's army into a modern conscript force over twenty years as war minister
- Fyodor Vasilyevich Dubasov Фёдор Васильевич Дубасов Imperial Russian admiral who crushed the Moscow December uprising with artillery fire
- Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky Зиновий Петрович Рожественский The Imperial Russian admiral who led the Baltic Fleet to catastrophe at Tsushima
- Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov Владимир Викторович Сахаров Cavalry general who led the 11th Army in the Brusilov Offensive and joined the White movement
- Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov Алексей Алексеевич Брусилов Designer of the 1916 Brusilov Offensive and the last great tsarist commander, who later joined the Red Army
- Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky Николай Владимирович Рузский The Northern Front commander who forced the Tsar's abdication at Pskov
- Nicholas Nikolaevich Romanov Николай Николаевич Романов The Grand Duke who drew a revolver on the Tsar and forced constitutional reform
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev Михаил Васильевич Алексеев The tsar's last chief of staff, who commanded the Eastern Front and laid the foundation of the White Volunteer Army
- Sergey Semyonovich Khabalov Сергей Семёнович Хабалов Last commander of the Petrograd Military District, who ordered troops to fire on crowds and then lost control of the garrison
- Alexey Maksimovich Kaledin Алексей Максимович Каледин Don Cossack ataman who opened the first White stronghold in the south
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich Николай Николаевич Юденич The last great commander of Imperial Russia, who won the Caucasus Front and led the White drive on Petrograd
- Vladimir Zenonovich May-Mayevsky Владимир Зенонович Май-Маевский The White general who led the Volunteer Army closest to Moscow, only to collapse from overstretched lines and alcoholism
- Yevgeny Karlovich Miller Евгений Карлович Миллер Baltic German tsarist general who commanded the White Northern Army and was kidnapped by the NKVD in Paris
- Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov Пётр Николаевич Краснов The White ataman who built a Don Cossack anti-Bolshevik state, collaborated with the Nazis, and was a Nobel Prize-nominated novelist
- Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов The general who offered Russia a “strong hand”
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Krymov Александр Михайлович Крымов Imperial Russian cavalry general who led Kornilov's march on Petrograd
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Hanzhin Михаил Васильевич Ханжин The artillery general who led Kolchak's drive to the Volga and was broken by Frunze's counterstroke
- Anton Ivanovich Denikin Антон Иванович Деникин The White commander who drove the largest anti-Bolshevik army to within 400 km of Moscow
- Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak Александр Васильевич Колчак From the Arctic to the execution wall: Imperial Russia's last armed defender turned Supreme Ruler
- Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs Михаил Константинович Дитерихс Kolchak's chief of staff, Romanov murder investigator, and last ruler of White Priamurye
- Boris Aleksandrovich Engelhardt Борис Александрович Энгельгардт Headed the Duma Military Commission whose order sending the garrison back to barracks triggered Order No. 1
- Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel Пётр Николаевич Врангель The "Black Baron": handed a lost war, he tried to break through with reforms as the White Army's last commander-in-chief
- Alexander Ilyich Dutov Александр Ильич Дутов Orenburg Cossack ataman who severed Soviet Russia from Turkestan, opening a front between the Volga and the Urals
- Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel Владимир Оскарович Каппель The White movement's greatest 'soldier-general': conqueror of Kazan who vanished into the ice
- Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг The White Army warlord who liberated Mongolia and dreamed of reviving the empire of Genghis Khan
- Ivan Pavlovich Kalmykov Иван Павлович Калмыков Ataman of the Ussuri Cossacks who took Khabarovsk in 1918 and became notorious for shootings without trial and plunder
- Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov Григорий Михайлович Семёнов The White ataman who ruled Transbaikal under Japanese protection and defied Kolchak
- Anatoly Nikolayevich Pepelyayev Анатолий Николаевич Пепеляев The 27-year-old White general whose Yakut expedition closed the Civil War
- Timofey Ivanovich Kirpichnikov Тимофей Иванович Кирпичников A soldier leader who defied imperial orders
- Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov Александр Васильевич Суворов Russian imperial field marshal and generalissimo, the 'Russian Hannibal'