Mikhail Diterikhs
Russian general and White movement leader (1874–1937) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs (Russian: Михаи́л Константи́нович Ди́терихс, German: Michail Konstantinowitsch Diterichs; May 17, 1874 – September 9, 1937) served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently became a key figure in the monarchist White movement in Siberia and the Russian Far East area during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923.
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Mikhail Diterikhs | |
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Born | (1874-05-17)May 17, 1874 Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | September 9, 1937(1937-09-09) (aged 63) Shanghai, Republic of China |
Allegiance | Russian Empire Russian Republic |
Service/ | Imperial Russian Army White Army |
Rank | General |
Commands held | Russian Salonika Force Siberian Army Zemskaya Rat |
Battles/wars | Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War |
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Descended from Lutheran Sudeten German ancestors who became Baltic Germans,[1] Diterikhs had a reputation as "a deeply religious man, the walls of whose private railway coach were plastered with icons"; he saw himself as "waging a holy war against the Bolshevik heathens".[2]