Vladimir Kislitsin
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kislitsin | |
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Service/ | Imperial Russian Army White Army Manchukuo Imperial Army |
Battles/wars | Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War World War II |
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kislitsin (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Кисли́цын) (January 9, 1883 – May 18, 1944) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army and later commanding officer of the pro-monarchist White Army in the later stages of the Russian Civil War.
Early life
As a son of Admiral
Order of St. Anna
, the 4th and 1st classes. He was repeatedly wounded, many times in the head.
White movement
In 1918, he was appointed commander of the 3rd Cavalry Division of
Aleksandr Kolchak
. In December 1919 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Ufa Cavalry Division.
After the defeat of Admiral Kolchak's armies in the
Great Siberian Ice march. After his arrival at Chita, Ataman Grigory Semyonov entrusted to Kislitsin's command the 1st Ataman Semyonov Manchurian Detachment until the end of the White movement in Transbaikal
(1921-1922).
White emigre
Vladimir Kislitsin emigrated to
Nash Put publishing house. From 1938 to 1942, Kislitsin acted as a chairman of Bureau for Russian Emigrants in Manchuria (BREM), established by Japanese occupational forces.[1]
He died in Harbin in 1944, where he was buried as well.
Further reading
- “General V.A. Kislitsin: From Russian Monarchism to the Spirit of Bushido,” Harbin and Manchuria: Place, Space, and Identity, edited by Thomas Lahusen, special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 99, no. 1 (Winter 2000)
See also
References
- ^ "General V.A. Kislitsin: From Russian Monarchism to the Spirit of Bushido," Harbin and Manchuria: Place, Space, and Identity, edited by Thomas Lahusen, special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 99, no. 1 (Winter 2000)