Education
Graduate General Staff Academy. Career-, prior to 1917 Revol served with Orenburg Cossack Army. June 1917 chairman, All-Russian Cossack Congress, I’etrograd, which elected him chairman, All-Russian League of Cossack Forces.
Advocated abolishing dichotomous rule of Provisional Government and Pctrograd Soviet. September 1917 elected ataman, Orenburg Cossack Army. Receiving news of Bolshevik coup in Pctrograd, joined with Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks to found in Orenburg the Committee for the Salvation of the Country and the Revol.
In the early hours of 28 November 1917 arrested Bolshevik members of Orenburg Soviet and Military Revol Committee. Mobilized Cossack troops and seized Troitsk, and Vcrkhne-Ural’sk cutting Centr Russia’s rail link with Siberia and Centr Asia. Then fought against Soviet troops in Southern Urals.
From November 1918 his troops, re-formed into Orenburg Separate Cossack Army, operated as part of Admiral Kolchak’s forces. March 1920 retreated to China with the remnants of his army.