Background
DENIKIN, Anton was born on December 4, 1872 in Wloclawsk, Warsaw Province. Son of border-guard major who rose trough the ranks and an impoverished Polish noblewoman.
DENIKIN, Anton was born on December 4, 1872 in Wloclawsk, Warsaw Province. Son of border-guard major who rose trough the ranks and an impoverished Polish noblewoman.
1892 graduate Kiev Cadet College. 1899 graduate General Staff Academy.
1892-1895 junior artillery officer 1902-1904 command and staff work with infantry and cavalry units. 1904-1905, during Russo-Japanese War, chief of staff, 3rd Transport-Amur Brigade, Transbaykal and Ural-Transbaykal Cossack Division in Far East.
1905-1914 cavalry corps staff officer, chief of staff of a reserve brigade in Saratov, commander, 17th Arkhangelsk Infantry Regt in Zhitomir and commissions general, Kiev Military district. 1914-1917 quartermastergen, 8th Army. Commander, 4th Iron Rifle Brigade, 4th Iron Rifle Division, 8th Army Corps.
1917 chief of staff to Supreme Commander in Chief, and commander in chief Western and Southwestern fronts. 1914 from outbreak of World War 1 supervised mobilization and establishment of staffs of 3rd and 8th Armies and other units on Southwestern Front.
1914-1915 his 4th Iron Rifle Brigade (subsequently expanded into the 4th Iron Rifle Division), which served as a permanent reserve for the 8th Army, displayed great tenacity in fighting in Galicia and the Carpathians. August 1917 supported General Kornilov in the latters’ attempt to restore order in Petrograd but was arrested along with Kornilov by Provisional Government and interned in Bykhov Prison. 19 September 1917 freed by General Dukhonin and made his way to the Don, where in 1918, together with General Alckseyev and General Kornilov, he formed the Volunteer Army to fight against the Soviets.
April 1918, after death of Kornilov, took command of Volunteer Army. Soon became commander in chief of anti-Soviet forces in Southern Russia. Summer-fall 1918, with the help of the Entente, launched a largescale offensive against the Red Army and captured the Northern Caucasus.
1919 captured the Donbas, the Ukraine and central Russia as far as the line Tsaritsyn-Voronezh-Orel. Failed to understand the social motives of the Civil War and proclaimed the ideal of a "united and indivisible Russia" without offering a positive political program Permitted efforts to restore the monarchy in the rear and thus failed to gain popular support.
October 1919 suffered defeats near Voronezh and Orel, retreated south and consolidated forces in Crimea. March 1920 after transferring remainder of his troops from Novorossiysk to Crimea, handed over command to General Wrangel and emigrated.
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