25 Facts About Anton Denikin

Anton Denikin's father, Ivan Efimovich Denikin, had been born a serf in the province of Saratov.

Anton Denikin retired from the army in 1869 with the rank of major.

In 1869, Ivan Anton Denikin married Polish seamstress Elzbieta Wrzesinska as his second wife.

In 1890, Anton Denikin enrolled at the Kiev Junker School, a military college from which he graduated in 1892.

The twenty-year-old Anton Denikin joined an artillery brigade, in which he served for three years.

However, to his misfortune, the academy decided to introduce a new system of calculating grades and as a result Anton Denikin was not offered a staff appointment after the final exams.

Anton Denikin protested the decision to the highest authority.

Anton Denikin first saw active service during the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

Anton Denikin was initially appointed quartermaster of General Brusilov's 8th Army.

Not one for staff service, Anton Denikin petitioned for an appointment to a fighting front.

Anton Denikin was transferred to the 4th Rifle Brigade, which was transformed into the 4th Rifle Division in 1915.

Anton Denikin was concurrently commander of the Southwestern Front from 20 July to 16 August 1917.

Anton Denikin supported the attempted coup of his superior, Kornilov, in September 1917 and was arrested and imprisoned with him.

Makhno duly turned his Insurgent Army east and led it against Anton Denikin's extended lines of supply, forcing the Whites to retreat.

Religious and faithful to the Russian Orthodox Church, Anton Denikin did not criticise the pogroms against the Jewish population until the end of 1919.

Anton Denikin believed that most people had reasons to hate Jews and wished to avoid an issue that divided his officers.

John Ernest Hodgson, a British war correspondent with Anton Denikin's forces, said the following of Anton Denikin's and his officers' antisemitism:.

Anton Denikin left the Crimea by ship to Istanbul and then to London.

Anton Denikin spent a few months in England, then moved to Belgium, and later to Hungary.

Anton Denikin was a writer, and prior to World War I had written several pieces in which he criticised the shortcomings of his beloved Russian Army.

The Germans did not press the matter and Anton Denikin was allowed to remain in rural exile.

Anton Denikin denounced White Russian collaborators at a meeting in Paris in 1939.

Anton Denikin denounced White Russians who were collaborating with Japan.

From 1945 until his death in 1947, Anton Denikin lived in the United States, in New York City.

Anton Denikin's remains were later transferred to St Vladimir's Cemetery in Jackson, New Jersey.