Anton Denikin

Life

Denikin was the son of Ivan Efimovich Denikin Russian majors (1807-1885) and his Polish wife to the world. He graduated in 1899, the Academy of the General Staff and served in the Russo- Japanese War. In World War I he was first Quartermaster General of the 8th Army under Brusilov, he commanded a brigade, from the autumn of 1916 as a Lieutenant General Army Corps. In April / May 1917, he was Chief of the General Staff, later commander of the Russian troops on the west and the south-western front.

There he transferred the command of the his remaining troops to General Wrangel and went into exile. He emigrated to Britain and France to the USA and died in 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

On 3 October 2005, his remains were transferred in accordance with the request of his daughter Marina Antonovna Denikina and with the permission of the Russian government to Russia and buried in Moscow at the cemetery of the Donskoi Monastery.

Writings

• The career of a Tsarist officer: Memoirs, 1872-1916. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1975, ISBN 0-8166-0698-6
• The Russian turmoil, memoirs, military, social and political. Hutchinson, London 1920
• The White Army. Cape, London 1930
• World events and the Russian Problem. Imprimerie rapidly C.T., Paris 1939
• The Russian Problem. o.o. 1940