Vladimir Kappel

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Vladimir Kappel
1883-1920

Place of birth Belev, Tula Guberniya, Russian Empire
Place of death Nizhneozyornaya village
Allegiance White Army
Years of service 1903–1920
Rank General
Unit 54th Novomirgorod Dragoon Regiment
Commands held 1st Volga Corps, 2nd Ufa Corps, 3rd Army
Battles/wars World War I, Russian Civil War
Awards Order of St. Vladimir 4th class, Order of St. Anne 2nd class, Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd class, Order of St. Anne 4th class[1]

Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel (Russian: Влади́мир О́скарович Ка́ппель, April 28 [O.S. April 16] 1883—January 25, 1920) was a White Russian military leader.

During the First World War he was a Chief of the 347th Infantry Regiment's Staff and an officer in the 1st Army's Staff. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Kappel commanded the Komuch White Army group (1918) and from December of 1919 the Eastern Front of Aleksandr Kolchak.

Kappel was born in the Swedish-Russian family. He graduated in the Saint Petersburg Page Corps and then in the Nikolayevskoye Cavalry School and Nikolayevskaya Academy of the General Staff. Declaring himself as a monarchist, Kappel however said he would fight under any banner against Bolsheviks. Kappel's adherents and allies were known in Russian as kappelevtsy (каппелевцы). After the execution of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in Irkutsk, the kappelevtsy were forced to undertake a winter march toward Chita, known as the "Great Siberian Ice march".

Kappel's tomb in Harbin was pulled down after Mao Zedong assumed power in China. On December 19, 2006 the remains of Kappel were transported for reinterment from China to Irkutsk.[2] On January 13, 2007, Vladimir Kappel's remains were interred at Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

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  1. ^ By the orders from March 1, 1915, June 7, 1915 and January 27, 1916 (5th Army order no. 185)
  2. ^ "Прах белого генерала Каппеля перевезли из Китая в Иркутск", December 19, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-22. 

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