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Born November 16, 1874 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died February 7, 1920 (aged 45) • Irkutsk • Russia
Political Affiliation White Army
Role In Russian Civil War
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov
Russian revolutionary
Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin
Russian military officer
Anton Ivanovich Denikin
Russian general
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov
Russian officer
Nikolay Yudenich
Russian general
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev
Russian general
Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron Wrangel
Russian general
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze
Russian military officer
Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny
Soviet general and politician
Nikolay Chaykovsky
Nikolay Vasilyevich Chaykovsky
Russian politician
Rüdiger, count von der Goltz
German army officer
Yekaterina Gordeeva
Russian figure skater
Ilya Ilf
Soviet humorist
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev
Soviet politician
Vitaly Komar
American artist
Lyudmila Belousova
Russian figure skater
Aleksandr A. Baranov
Russian governor of Alaska
Konstantin Balmont
Russian poet