Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Барон Пётр Николаевич Врангель, German: Freiherr Peter von Wrangel; August 15, 1878 – April 25, 1928) was an officer in the Imperial Russian army and later commanding general of the anti-bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia in the later stages of the Russian Civil War.
Wrangel was born in Mukuliai (near Zarasai), Lithuania (then part of Imperial Russia), a descendant of the Baltic German Wrangel family. After ...
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Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Барон Пётр Николаевич Врангель, German: Freiherr Peter von Wrangel; August 15, 1878 – April 25, 1928) was an officer in the Imperial Russian army and later commanding general of the anti-bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia in the later stages of the Russian Civil War.
Wrangel was born in Mukuliai (near Zarasai), Lithuania (then part of Imperial Russia), a descendant of the Baltic German Wrangel family. After graduating from the Institute of Mining Engineering in 1901, Wrangel volunteered for the Cavalry and was commissioned an officer in 1902, taking part in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. In 1906, he became a member of the punitive expedition forces under General A.N.Orlov in the Baltic region. Wrangel graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1910 and commanded a cavalry unit during the World War I.
After the October Revolution Wrangel went to the Crimea and in August 1918 joined the White Volunteer Army. He first commanded a Cavalry division...
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