Eugene Kobylinsky
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Colonel Eugene Kobylinsky (11 October [
Russian Emperor Nicholas II, who abdicated his throne after the February Revolution
of 1917.
Biography
Yevgeny Stepanovich Kobylinsky (
Kiev on 11 October [O.S.
29 September] 1875. He graduated from the Cadet Corps military school.
On 14 January [
St. Petersburg Imperial Guard regiment. He served on the front lines in World War I
and was decommissioned after sustaining major injuries.
After
Russian Imperial Family was imprisoned. He attended the family and forty-five retainers when they departed for the city of Tobolsk in Siberia
that August.
After the
Bolshevik
regime was established and Kobylinsky was replaced by Bolshevik officers, who employed a much stricter regime than he had.
During the
Aleksandr Kolchak, for whom he fought until he was captured near Krasnoyarsk the following December and sent to a concentration camp. In exchange for freedom, in September 1920 he joined the Red Army
, eventually becoming its treasurer.
He was hired as an accountant by the
Tsarskoe Selo, with whom he had a son, Innokenty.[2]
In 1926 a Tobolsk resident named Paulina Mežanc suggested during an interrogation that Kobylinsky was in possession of jewelry that once belonged to the Imperial family. An investigation was undertaken from June to September 1927. The alleged jewelry was never found, but Kobylinsky was revealed to have had connections to the White Army of Yugoslavia. He was sacked by his employer, charged with "monarchical conspiracy" against the Soviet state, and was killed by firing squad in Moscow, along with eight others, that December.
References
- ISBN 978-1447293101.
- ISBN 978-1447227175.