People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Military command 1
Affiliation

Most people

Any Russian White movement 1

All 1 affiliations

Russia

Russian White movement 1
Position(set)
Any Imperial establishment and White movement 1 Counter-revolutionary forces 1 Left critics of Bolshevism 2 Socialist-bloc reform leader 1 Dissident 4 Non-Bolshevik socialists 4 Fascists and Nazis 1 Marxism and communism 30
Citizenship
Any Russia 1
Background(set)
Any Germany 18 Hungary 6 Italy 3 Austria 2 Czechoslovakia 1 Estonia 1 France 1 Georgia 1 Latvia 1 Spain 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 1
Fascists and Nazis Background: Georgia Clear all

Pavel Bermondt-Avalov

Павел Бермондт-Авалов
Russian White movement Fascists and Nazis Russia Sources disagree on his background. Through his mother and adoptive father a Georgian princely line from Kakheti, the Avalishvili, is reported, while records name the Karaite Rafail Bermondt as his father. He is understood to have a mixed Georgian and Karaite background. 1877–1973 ○ Died

Commander of the West Russian Volunteer Army who led German Freikorps against Riga

Refusing Yudenich's order to join the Narva front, in October 1919 he proclaimed himself 'representative of Russian state power' and marched on Riga.

A Russian cavalry officer who styled himself 'Prince Avalov', he gathered tens of thousands of German Freikorps men who refused to leave Latvia into the West Russian Volunteer Army and attacked Riga in October 1919, only to be repelled. In exile he led a Russian fascist organization in Berlin and died in New York in 1973.

Career timeline
  • 1901Enlisted as kapellmeister in the 1st Argun Regiment
  • 1904–1905Fought in the Russo-Japanese War; awarded the Cross of St George
  • 1918Head of recruitment and counterintelligence, Southern Army, Kiev
  • 1919.04Formed a volunteer detachment at the Salzvedel POW camp
  • 1919.07Formed the Count Keller detachment at Mitava
  • 1919.09Proclaimed himself CinC of the West Russian Volunteer Army; marched on Riga in October
  • 1925Published memoirs 'In the Struggle against Bolshevism'
  • 1933Founded the Russian National-Socialist Movement (ROND)