Martin Antonenko
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Death of a "White" General!
On May 6, 1930 dies in the Moscow secret service headquarters "Lubjanka" ...
... the former tsarist general Aleksander Pawlowich Kutepow ...:
When the - bourgeois - revolution broke out in the Russian capital Petrograd (the name of Saint Petersburg "Russified" during the First World War) in March 1917, Kutepow, at that time colonel and commander of the oldest Russian guard regiment Preobrashenskij ...
... just happened to be on leave from the front in the capital.
While the Minister of the Interior Protopopow and the city commander General Chabalow, whom the Tsar had ordered to put down the uprising, both went to "diving stations", Kutepow acted on his own initiative by taking action against the revolutionaries with parts of his regiment!
But the Preobrashenskij-Soldiers, which were garrisoned in the capital in 1917, could only be compared in name to the loyal guard troops, all of whom were at the front!
They were semi-trained recruits, all of whom were afraid of being transported to the front.
Kutepow succeeded in recapturing parts of the city center, including the main street Nevsky Prospect, but in the first night his soldiers dispersed and joined the revolution ...:
Kutepov returned to the front, disgusted by the hustle and bustle in the capital, and was soon promoted to general.
After the Bolshevik October putsch, Kutepov joined the "white" forces and commanded troops of the "white" Volunteer Army first as a brigade, then as a division and finally as a corps general ...:
After the white forces were able to take the important port city of Novorossijsk in August 1918 ...
... Kutepov was appointed Governor General of the Black Sea Region ...
... and in this capacity was responsible for some particularly severe reprisals against the Bolsheviks.
When the end of the "whites" came in southern Russia in 1920, Kutepow and the remains of his troops ...
... were evacuated on British ships and settled - after a short stay in Bulgaria, where he was expelled - at Paris ...:
There he led a group of supporters of the Tsar's uncle Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolejewitsch Romanov ...
..., whom he regarded as the legitimate successor of the overthrown and murdered Tsar Nikolai II and the rightful ruler of Russia after the assassination of the successor to Thorn, the Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov...:
When in 1928 the most important military leader of the forces loyal to the Tsar in exile, General Baron Pjotr Nikolajevitsch Wrangel ...
(The following picture shows Wrangel togeher with Kutepow)
... was murdered by a poison attack by Stalin's secret service, Kutepov took over the leadership of the so-called 'All-Russian Military Union' as his successor ...:
The aim of this organization was to pool the anti-Soviet activities of all Belarusian forces that were in exile and ultimately to overthrow the communist rulers!
It goes without saying that the Soviet landlord, Yossif Stalin, didn't like to see something like that ...!
On January 26, 1930, Kutepov was kidnapped on the street in Paris by agents of the Soviet secret service OGPU, leaded of the later KGB general Yakow Isaakowitsch Serebrjansky ...
As soon as the general, who had just left his apartment ...
... approached, two GPU agents jumped out of a car disguised as a taxi waiting by the roadside and pushed him inside. It was Serebryansky with an agent. An uphill battle began in the car.
Kutepovl was in good health, well trained, walked 40 kilometers several times a week and prepared for the future fight in Russia. Kutepov knocked one of the attackers unconscious and overpowered the second.
A third GPU man, who was waiting in the street while disguised as a French policeman and was actually only supposed to secure the action, intervened and stabbed Kutepov in the back with a knife, whereupon his resistance ended.
The following picture shows a reconstruction of the kidnapping by the French police ...:
Hidden in a wooden box Kutepow was abducted to the Soviet Union.
Hie died at Moscow, probably after severe torture.
Today a memorial stone reminds of him, it is not a grave!
Of course, the chekists made the body disappear ...
On May 6, 1930 dies in the Moscow secret service headquarters "Lubjanka" ...
... the former tsarist general Aleksander Pawlowich Kutepow ...:
When the - bourgeois - revolution broke out in the Russian capital Petrograd (the name of Saint Petersburg "Russified" during the First World War) in March 1917, Kutepow, at that time colonel and commander of the oldest Russian guard regiment Preobrashenskij ...
... just happened to be on leave from the front in the capital.
While the Minister of the Interior Protopopow and the city commander General Chabalow, whom the Tsar had ordered to put down the uprising, both went to "diving stations", Kutepow acted on his own initiative by taking action against the revolutionaries with parts of his regiment!
But the Preobrashenskij-Soldiers, which were garrisoned in the capital in 1917, could only be compared in name to the loyal guard troops, all of whom were at the front!
They were semi-trained recruits, all of whom were afraid of being transported to the front.
Kutepow succeeded in recapturing parts of the city center, including the main street Nevsky Prospect, but in the first night his soldiers dispersed and joined the revolution ...:
Kutepov returned to the front, disgusted by the hustle and bustle in the capital, and was soon promoted to general.
After the Bolshevik October putsch, Kutepov joined the "white" forces and commanded troops of the "white" Volunteer Army first as a brigade, then as a division and finally as a corps general ...:
After the white forces were able to take the important port city of Novorossijsk in August 1918 ...
... Kutepov was appointed Governor General of the Black Sea Region ...
... and in this capacity was responsible for some particularly severe reprisals against the Bolsheviks.
When the end of the "whites" came in southern Russia in 1920, Kutepow and the remains of his troops ...
... were evacuated on British ships and settled - after a short stay in Bulgaria, where he was expelled - at Paris ...:
There he led a group of supporters of the Tsar's uncle Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolejewitsch Romanov ...
..., whom he regarded as the legitimate successor of the overthrown and murdered Tsar Nikolai II and the rightful ruler of Russia after the assassination of the successor to Thorn, the Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov...:
When in 1928 the most important military leader of the forces loyal to the Tsar in exile, General Baron Pjotr Nikolajevitsch Wrangel ...
(The following picture shows Wrangel togeher with Kutepow)
... was murdered by a poison attack by Stalin's secret service, Kutepov took over the leadership of the so-called 'All-Russian Military Union' as his successor ...:
The aim of this organization was to pool the anti-Soviet activities of all Belarusian forces that were in exile and ultimately to overthrow the communist rulers!
It goes without saying that the Soviet landlord, Yossif Stalin, didn't like to see something like that ...!
On January 26, 1930, Kutepov was kidnapped on the street in Paris by agents of the Soviet secret service OGPU, leaded of the later KGB general Yakow Isaakowitsch Serebrjansky ...
As soon as the general, who had just left his apartment ...
... approached, two GPU agents jumped out of a car disguised as a taxi waiting by the roadside and pushed him inside. It was Serebryansky with an agent. An uphill battle began in the car.
Kutepovl was in good health, well trained, walked 40 kilometers several times a week and prepared for the future fight in Russia. Kutepov knocked one of the attackers unconscious and overpowered the second.
A third GPU man, who was waiting in the street while disguised as a French policeman and was actually only supposed to secure the action, intervened and stabbed Kutepov in the back with a knife, whereupon his resistance ended.
The following picture shows a reconstruction of the kidnapping by the French police ...:
Hidden in a wooden box Kutepow was abducted to the Soviet Union.
Hie died at Moscow, probably after severe torture.
Today a memorial stone reminds of him, it is not a grave!
Of course, the chekists made the body disappear ...
