Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov

Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov

Alexander Kutepov ( Russian Александр Павлович Кутепов ; born September 16 ^{. Jul} / 28. September  1882 ^greg. In Cherepovets , † 6. May 1930 in Moscow ) was a general of the Imperial Russian Army and a leader of the white party in the Russian civil war .

Life

Kutepow began his military career in 1904 with the successful completion of his training at the Junker - Infantry School in St. Petersburg . He took part in both the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War , and during this time he rose from company commander to regimental and brigade commander. In the course of the October Revolution , he joined the newly formed White Army in southern Russia from volunteers , where he was initially used again as the commander of a brigade and later a division. After the white forces were able to take Novorossiysk in August 1918 , he was appointed governor general of the Black Sea region and in this capacity was responsible for some particularly sharp reprisals against the local population.

In January 1919 he was then given command of the corps of the Volunteer Army of General Anton Denikin's troops . In 1920 he took over as General of the Infantry the 1st Army of the units of the White Army under General Wrangel . After Wrangel's final defeat by the Bolsheviks , Kutepov fled into exile in Gallipoli with the remnants of the troops he commanded . In 1921 he went to Bulgaria , but was expelled from that country two years later after a communist uprising. Finally, Kutepov settled in Paris . There he initially led a group of supporters of Grand Duke Nikolai Romanov . When Wrangel died in 1928 as a result of an alleged poison attack by the Bolsheviks, Kutepov took over the leadership of the ' All-Russian Military Union '. Its aim was to pool the anti-Soviet activities of all Belarusian forces that were in exile.

On January 26, 1930, Kutepov was kidnapped by agents of the Soviet secret service GPU with the significant participation of General Nikolai Skoblin, who had defected to the Bolsheviks in exile , and brought to the Soviet Union against his will . He died on May 6, 1930 under unknown circumstances in the custody of the Soviet secret police.

The kidnapping of Kutepov and seven years later Yevgeny Miller by GPU agents forms the background of Vladimir Nabokov's story The Assistant Director ( Помощник режиссёра ).

literature

• Marina Gray: Le général meurt a minuit: l'enlèvement des généraux Koutiépov (1930) and Miller (1937) . Paris 1981.
• Beaune Danielle. L'enlèvement du Général Koutiepoff: documents et commentaires. Aix-en-Provence 1998.
• RG Gagkujew / WSZwetkow: / WW Golitsyn: General Kutepow. Moscow 2009. ISBN 978-5-85824-190-4

Web links

Commons : Alexander Kutepov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Career data on grwar.ru (Russian)