Vladimir Vladimirovich Marushevsky (russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маруше́вский; 12 July 187424 November 1951) was an

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general, and served as the last chief of staff of the

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Biography

Early life

Marushevsky was born on July 12, 1874 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, into a noble family originated from the

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. In 1893 and 1896, he graduated from the Sixth Cadet Corps and the Nikolaev Engineering School respectively. After graduating, he served in several minor battalions. During this time, he was promoted to

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in 1898, and

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in 1902.

World War I

In the first world war he commanded the 3rd Special Infantry Brigade of the

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between July 1916 and May 1917. Between 26 September and 23 November 1917, he was the last Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Empire. He was briefly arrested in November 1917, by order of the Council of People's Commissars on charges of negotiations against the Soviet government (the same charge was brought against

Nikolay Dukhonin Nikolay Nikolayevich Dukhonin (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Духо́нин; 13 December 1876 – 3 December 1917) was a Russian general, the last commander-in-chief of the Imperial Russian Army. Biography Dukhonin was bo ...

, who was killed by soldiers at Stavka), and the sabotage of the armistice with Germany. Together with Marushevsky, General

Alexey Manikovsky Alexey Alekseevich Manikovsky (russian: Алексей Алексеевич Маниковский) (March 13, 1865 - January 1920, Turkestan) was an artillery general (1916). He served in the Russian Imperial Army and later defected to the Bols ...

, who carried out the technical management of the military department, was arrested and sent to

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. On December 1, 1917 he was released on parole, after which he fled to Finland and Sweden.

Russian Civil War

On November 19, 1918 at the invitation of the British and French military missions he came to

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, where he was appointed commander of the Northern Region. At the same time he was a member of the

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as Governor-General and the head of the departments of internal affairs, communications, posts and telegraphs. He led the formation of the “White” Northern Army of about 20,000 soldiers. It relied in its activities heavily on the British military contingent, which took part in the Allied military intervention in the north of Russia and led military operations against units of the Red Army. On January 13, 1919, he transferred the duties of the Governor-General to General

Yevgeny Miller Eugen Ludwig Müller (russian: Евге́ний-Лю́двиг Ка́рлович Ми́ллер, tr. ; 25 September 1867 – 11 May 1939), better known as Yevgeny Miller, was a Russian general of Baltic German origin and one of the leaders of th ...

, remaining commander of the Army (but actually served as Miller's assistant). From May 1919 he was Lieutenant General. In the summer of 1919, he negotiated with

Mannerheim Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (, ; 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as comma ...

about military cooperation between Finland and the Russian Northern Region. On August 19, 1919, he resigned from the post of commander of the Northern Army and on September 5, 1919, he went to Sweden. He went into exile in Yugoslavia, and died in Zagreb in 1951.

References

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