Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (October 19, 1862, Paris[1] – April 28, 1946) was a French general (since April 20, 1916) and military commander who was the chief of the French military mission in Siberia during the Russian civil war.
On January 14, 1920, after giving his word to guarantee the safety of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, leader of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, he ordered the Czechoslovak Legion to kidnap him and hand him over to the Socialist Revolutionaries at Irkutsk.
Janin is recipient of the Latvian military Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class.[1]