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8 unusual facts about White Guard


Alexander Blok

Several months earlier, Blok had delivered a celebrated lecture on Alexander Pushkin, the memory of whom he believed to be capable of uniting White and Soviet Russian factions.

Arkady Averchenko

In 1921 in Paris he published a satirical anthology, A Dozen Knives in the Back of Revolution which Lenin described as "a book of great talent by the embittered to distraction White Guard."

Lauri Nurminen

Lauri Nurminen (born 9 September 1906 - 20 February 2009) was the last known White Guard and the last known veteran from the Finnish Civil War

Minay Shmyryov

At first a quartermaster for the Red Army in battles against the White Guard during the Russian Civil War, Shmyryov became a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1920, but returned home the same year after falling ill during the wartime epidemic of typhus, and was appointed to head a local unit tasked with the struggle against "lawlessness" from 1920 to 1923.

Saken Seyfullin

When on June 4, 1918, the White Guard conducted a revolution, Seyfullin was arrested and sent to Petropavlovsk jail.

Tuomas W. Hyrskymurto

When the White Guard was besieging Tampere Hyrskymurto left the city and went to Toijala Red Guard commanders Eino Rahja's deputy and tried to break the Tampere siege from south.

Vladimir Narbut

He was arrested by the White Guards in Rostov-on-Don and imprisoned until being released by the Red Army.

White Guard

The White Guard, a 1966 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov about the Russian White movement



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Konstantin Khabensky

Since 2003, Khabensky has been a member of Moscow Art Theatre stage cast, and a lead actor in Duck Hunt (Zilov), Mikhail Bulgakov's White Guard (Alexey Turbin) and Hamlet.

Miles of Fire

The White Guard Army led by General Anton Denikin are laying siege to a southern city in order to prevent a rebellion.