Denikin, Anton Ivanovich

Denikin, Anton Ivanovich

▪ Russian general
born Dec. 16 [Dec. 4, Old Style], 1872, near Warsaw, Pol., Russian Empire
died Aug. 8, 1947, Ann Arbor, Mich., U.S.

      general who led the anti-Bolshevik (“White”) forces on the southern front during the Russian Civil War (1918–20).

      A professional in the Imperial Russian Army, Denikin served in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and in World War I (1914–16). After the February Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Romanov dynasty, he became chief of staff to the provisional government's commander in chief, Mikhail V. Alekseyev, but was quickly disillusioned by that government's inability to maintain discipline in the army. He was dismissed from his post in July for political reasons.

      Placed in command of the western front, Denikin came into close contact with General Lavr G. Kornilov (Kornilov, Lavr Georgiyevich), then the Russian supreme military commander, and in August 1917 the two were arrested for conspiring to overthrow the provisional government and establish a military dictatorship. A month after the Bolsheviks' October (Old Style) coup d'état, however, they escaped from prison and fled southward to the Don River region, where Kornilov assumed command of the White Army recently formed by Alekseyev. Kornilov was killed in April 1918, and Denikin became commander of the White forces in southern Russia. By the beginning of 1919 he controlled the northern Caucasus; in May he launched a major offensive, advancing through Ukraine toward Moscow. In October, however, the Red Army defeated him at Oryol (250 miles [402 km] from Moscow) and forced him to retreat with his disintegrating army to Novorossiysk; the remainder of his army was then evacuated to the Crimea (March 1920). In April Denikin turned over his command to General Pyotr N. Wrangel and settled in France, where he wrote his memoirs, Ocherki russkoy smuty, 5 vol. (1923–27; “History of the Civil Strife in Russia”). He immigrated to the United States in 1945.

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