Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (October 19, 1862,

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– April 28, 1946) was a French general (from April 20, 1916) and military commander who was the chief of the Allied military mission in

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

during the

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. As such, he commanded the

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in Russia. Janin betrayed and detained Supreme Leader and Commander-in-Chief of All Russian Land and Sea Forces Admiral

Alexander Kolchak Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (russian: link=no, Александр Васильевич Колчак; – 7 February 1920) was an Imperial Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer who served in the Imperial Russian Navy and fought ...

and handed him over to local Socialist-Revolutionaries in January 1920. In February 1920, the Bolsheviks executed Kolchak in Irkutsk. N. G. O. Pereira, "White Power during the Civil War in Siberia (1918–1920): Dilemmas of Kolchak's "War Anti-Communism," in: ''Canadian Slavonic Papers'' (1987) 29#1 pp 45–62. Janin was a recipient of the Latvian military

Order of Lāčplēsis The Order of Lāčplēsis (also Lāčplēsis Military Order, lv, Lāčplēša Kara ordenis), the first and the highest Latvian military award, was established in 1919 on the initiative of Jānis Balodis, the Commander of the Latvian Army during ...

, 2nd class. He was also awarded the Czechoslovak Military variant of

Order of the White Lion The Order of the White Lion ( cs, Řád Bílého lva) is the highest order of the Czech Republic. It continues a Czechoslovak order of the same name created in 1922 as an award for foreigners (Czechoslovakia had no civilian decoration for its ...

in 1923.

In fiction

In the 2008 Russian biopic '' The Admiral'', Janin is played by

Richard Bohringer Richard Bohringer (born 16 January 1942) is a French actor. Personal life Bohringer was born in Moulins, Allier, to a French mother and a German father. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer, and has three other children, Mathieu, Richa ...

References

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General Maurice Janin – saved the legionnaires in Siberia, but died in oblivion – part one
1862 births 1946 deaths French generals French military personnel of World War I People of the Russian Civil War Recipients of the Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia) French expatriates in Russia Czechoslovak Legion {{France-mil-bio-stub