The Atamans
Ataman Grigorii Semenov
1920
Decorated combat hero on the Polish, Galician and Mesopotamian fronts of the Great War. July 1917 Provisional Government
commissar tasked to raise troops of Buryat ethnicity. December 1917 leader of anti-Bolshevik uprising in Transbaikalia. November 1918 became Corps Commander, Army of Transbaikal and Amur Provinces and Ussuri Cossack Host. December 1918 Expedition Ataman of Far Eastern Cossack Host and Commander of Independent Eastern Siberian Army. July 1919 promoted to major general. January 1920 became Supreme Ruler of White territory in Russian Far East. 1922 exile to
China and Manchuria.
1920
Decorated combat hero on the Polish, Galician and Mesopotamian fronts of the Great War. July 1917 Provisional Government
commissar tasked to raise troops of Buryat ethnicity. December 1917 leader of anti-Bolshevik uprising in Transbaikalia. November 1918 became Corps Commander, Army of Transbaikal and Amur Provinces and Ussuri Cossack Host. December 1918 Expedition Ataman of Far Eastern Cossack Host and Commander of Independent Eastern Siberian Army. July 1919 promoted to major general. January 1920 became Supreme Ruler of White territory in Russian Far East. 1922 exile to
China and Manchuria.
Ataman Grigorii Semenov
1945
Semenov became a leader of exiled anti-Bolshevik Russians in Manchuria, and collaborated with the Japanese occupation during the 1930s and World War II. He remained a boogie man of Stalin's NKVD, and contrived accusations of sympathy for Semenov sent thousands of innocent Russians to the gulags or death. 1945 Captured at Dairen, Manchukuo by Red Army. His 1946 war crimes trial at Khabarovsk was followed by all of the USSR. At his hanging, his executioners allegedly used prohibited methods to prolong his dance of death on the gallows...
1945
Semenov became a leader of exiled anti-Bolshevik Russians in Manchuria, and collaborated with the Japanese occupation during the 1930s and World War II. He remained a boogie man of Stalin's NKVD, and contrived accusations of sympathy for Semenov sent thousands of innocent Russians to the gulags or death. 1945 Captured at Dairen, Manchukuo by Red Army. His 1946 war crimes trial at Khabarovsk was followed by all of the USSR. At his hanging, his executioners allegedly used prohibited methods to prolong his dance of death on the gallows...
Ataman Ivan Kalmykov
1919
Young patriotic officer who led an anti-Bolshevik uprising in the Maritime Province in spring 1918 and took control of the city of Khabarovsk. Quickly corrupted by power and unabashedly beholden to Japanese military and intelligence organs, he became a ruthless, kleptomanic warlord.
1919
Young patriotic officer who led an anti-Bolshevik uprising in the Maritime Province in spring 1918 and took control of the city of Khabarovsk. Quickly corrupted by power and unabashedly beholden to Japanese military and intelligence organs, he became a ruthless, kleptomanic warlord.
Ataman Annenkov
1919
Semenov established links with other anti-Soviet atamans such as Boris Annenkov, leader of the Semireche (Seven Rivers) Cossacks. Annenkov (left) and aide were photographed in Vladivostok during a summer 1919 visit, waiting to ask for US support. Major General Graves and the AEFS staff were not sympathetic,
having already tasted Semenov's bitter brand of Cossack governance.
1919
Semenov established links with other anti-Soviet atamans such as Boris Annenkov, leader of the Semireche (Seven Rivers) Cossacks. Annenkov (left) and aide were photographed in Vladivostok during a summer 1919 visit, waiting to ask for US support. Major General Graves and the AEFS staff were not sympathetic,
having already tasted Semenov's bitter brand of Cossack governance.
Baron Roman Ungern-Shternberg
1921
Young patriotic officer who dreamed of founding a militant Buddhist sect and became a legendary
warlord known as "the Bloody Baron," surrounded by myths of psychopathic atrocities and supernatural rumors, immortalized in French comics.
1921
Young patriotic officer who dreamed of founding a militant Buddhist sect and became a legendary
warlord known as "the Bloody Baron," surrounded by myths of psychopathic atrocities and supernatural rumors, immortalized in French comics.