17 Facts About Alexander Kutepov

Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov was a Russian military officer in the Imperial Russian Army and later an anti-communist officer in the Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War.

Alexander Kutepov was assassinated after being abducted by OGPU agents in Paris in 1930.

Alexander Kutepov was born into the family of a personal nobleman, Konstantin Mikhailovich Timofeev, and his wife, Olga Andreevna, in Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate.

Alexander Kutepov was educated at the Arkhangelsk gymnasium.

Alexander Kutepov was ultimately awarded the order of the German Crown with swords and on the ribbon of the Iron Cross through the intervention of German emperor Wilhelm, after whom the Regiment was named.

Alexander Kutepov Pavlovich was returning from Manchuria to the capital separately from his regiment after being appointed to a special team sent to Russia to train new recruits.

Alexander Kutepov was wounded in a battle near Vladislavov on 20 August 1914.

In December 1916, Colonel Alexander Kutepov was elected by the general meeting of officers of the regiment to the court of honor and to his administrative team.

Alexander Kutepov was awarded the Order of Saint Anna of the 4th degree with the inscription "For Courage" and the St Stanislav of the 3rd degree with swords.

Alexander Kutepov was recommended for the award of the Order of St George of the 3rd degree for distinctive service in the battles near the village of Mshany during the Tarnopol breakthrough, on 7 July 1917, but did not receive it because of the recommendation did not reach the government in the post-revolutionary chaos.

At the start of the Ice March in early 1918, Alexander Kutepov was a company commander of an officer's regiment.

Alexander Kutepov accomplished this by means of the swift and ruthless application of capital punishment on suspected looters and pogrom perpetrators.

Alexander Kutepov is credited with setting up a counter-intelligence branch of ROVS, the Inner Line.

On 26 January 1930, Alexander Kutepov was kidnapped in Paris by OGPU agents.

Alexander Kutepov resisted the kidnapping, and during the struggle, he had a heart attack and died, Serebryansky told me.

Alexander Kutepov was believed by French police of having been smuggled to the Soviet Union.

Alexander Kutepov was married to the daughter of a college adviser Lydia Davydovna, nee Kut.