Yi Ouitjyong
Yi Ouitjyong | |
|---|---|
Podporuchik | |
| Battles/wars | World War I (Eastern Front) Russian Civil War |
| Awards | Order of Merit for National Foundation (1962) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이위종 |
| Hanja | 李瑋鍾 |
| Revised Romanization | I Wijong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yi Wijong |
Yi Ouitjyong (
Bolsheviks and fought in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
.
Life
Yi was born in 1884. In 1907 he,
Sangsul Yi, and from there to Vladivostok and Saint Petersburg
.
In 1911, after his father killed himself, he became a military officer of the
Bolsheviks and fought in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. In the process, he cut off all communication with his erstwhile aristocratic wife and his family members. He fought in battle around Irkutsk against Alexander Kolchak's White Army. After the war, he served as an apparatchik in Krasnoyarsk and Chita
until 1924. Not much is known of Yi's life after 1924.
Family
His father Yi Beom-Jin was a Korean politician and diplomat. He married a Russian noble, Elizabeta Noelke (1888–1942), in 1906. The couple had three daughters; Vera (1906–1920), Nyna (1909–1940), Zena (1912- ?). Their descendants still live in Russia.[1]
See also
- Greater Korean Empire
- Koryo-Saram
References
- ^ Hong, Sungkyun. "네 조부는 한국 귀족 (My grandfather were a Korean aristocrat)". Naver News Library. Kyunghyang Shinmun. Retrieved 10 June 2018.