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Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Анто́н Ива́нович Дени́кин) ( December 16 , 1872 - August 8 , 1947 ) was Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army (1916) and one of the foremost leaders of the counter-revolutionary White Russian Forces in the Civil War . Born in Wloclawek near Warsaw , he was the son of a low-ranking army officer. Skill and relentless ambition saw him tread a remarkable path away from his humble origins. He was educated at the Kiev Military School and the Academy of the General Staff. He first saw active service during the Russo-Japanese War . In August 1914 Denikin was a Major-General and commander of the Kiev military district. He joined the Eighth Army, initially a Deputy Chief of Staff in September he was sent to Galicia to command the 4th Rifle Brigade. In 1916 he was appointed to command VIII Corps and directed action in Romania during the last serious Russian assault of the war, the Brusilov Offensive . Following the February Revolution he was Chief of Staff to Mikhail Alekseev , then Aleksei Brusilov and finally Lavr Georgevich Kornilov . Denikin supported the attempted coup of his commander, the Kornilov Affair , in September 1917 and was arrested and imprisoned with him. Alekseev was re-appointed commander-in-Chief. Following the October Revolution both Denikin and Kornilov escaped to Novocherkassk in southern Russia and, with other Tsarist officers, formed the Volunteer Army , initially commanded by Alekseev. Kornilov was killed in April 1918 near Ekaterinodar and the Volunteer Army came to be commanded by Denikin. There was some sentiment to place Grand Duke Nicholas in overall command, but Denikin was not interested in sharing power. In the face of a Communist counter-offensive he withdrew his forces back towards the Don area. He led one final assault of the southern White forces - an audacious attempt to capture Moscow in the summer of 1919. Overstretched, his army was decisively defeated at Orel in October, some 400km south of Moscow. The White forces in southern Russia were in constant retreat thereafter, eventually reaching the Crimea in March 1920. Denikin resigned his post in April in favour of Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel and fled by ship over Black Sea to Istanbul . He was offred asylum in England but he preferred to go to Brussels . Later he lived in exile in France . From 1945 until his death he lived in the United States . He wrote several books, including ''The Russian Turmoil'' (5 volumes), ''Old Army'', ''The Career of a Tsarist Officer: Memoirs, 1872-1916'' and ''The Road of a Russian Officer'' (published posthumously in 1953). He died in Ann Arbor , Michigan , in the United States in 1947 . His daughter Marina Antonovna Denikina applied for Russian citizenship and was granted it in 2005 . On October 3 , 2005 , in accordance with the wishes of his daughter, and by authority of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation , the remains of General Denikin were transferred from the United States and reburied at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow . Marina Denikina died November 17 , 2005 , at her home in Versailles , near Paris . Biography. The standard reference is Dimitry V. Lehovich, "White Against Red - the Life of General Anton Denikin," New York, W.W. Norton, 1974. This book is also available in Russian in two versions. One, an abridged text, is "Belye Protiv Krasnykh," Moscow, Voskresenie publishers, 1992. The second, an unabridged edition, is "Denikin - Zhizn' Russkogo Ofitsera," Moscow, Evrasia publishers, 2004. EXTERNAL LINK |
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