Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron

Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron

▪ Russian general
born Aug. 27 [Aug. 15, Old Style], 1878, Novo-Aleksandrovsk, Lithuania, Russian Empire
died , April 25, 1928, Brussels

      general who led the “White” (anti-Bolshevik) forces in the final phase of the Russian Civil War (1918–20).

      A member of an old German baronial family, he served in the Russian imperial guards and became commander of a Cossack division during World War I. He continued to serve in the army after the February Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Romanov dynasty. However, when General Lavr G. Kornilov, whom he supported, was arrested for attempting to overthrow the provisional government (August 1917), Wrangel resigned his commission and went to the Crimea.

      After the Bolshevik coup d'état (October 1917), he joined the White forces of General Anton I. Denikin (Denikin, Anton Ivanovich) and was given command of an army. During Denikin's offensive (summer 1919), Wrangel captured Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd; July 2); he succeeded Denikin as commander of the White armies in April 1920, after the Whites had been forced back into the Crimea and Denikin had resigned. Wrangel tried to rally the support of the peasants, Cossacks, and western allies for the Whites, then launched a new offensive in the Ukraine (June 1920). By early November, however, the Red Army had defeated the Whites, who retreated into the Crimea and were evacuated to Constantinople (Nov. 8–16, 1920). After leaving Russia, Wrangel lived in exile in western Europe and wrote his memoirs, which appeared in English translation in 1929.

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