Vladimir Kislitsin
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— died May 18, 1944, Harbin
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) was an officer in the Imperial Russian army and later commanding officer of the pro-monarchist White Army
White movement
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in the later stages of the Russian Civil War
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.
Initial stages
As a son of Admiral Alexander Kislitsin, Vladimir took his education at the OdessaOdessa
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Military Institution in 1900 and the Sandomir Officer Training School. He was assigned to the Special Frontier Corps on the Western border of the Russian Empire
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. Thus, he was sent to the Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
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. In the course of the World War I
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he headed as an officer of the 11th Dragoon Regiment, gaining a rank as colonel
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in 1916. Vladimir Kislitzin was awarded the Order of St. George
Order of St. George
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of the Fourth Degree (1915), the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov) of the 3rd and 2nd classes, the St. George honor weapon, and the Order of St. Anna
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, the 4th and 1st classes. He was repeatedly wounded, many times in the head.
White movement
In 1918 he was appointed commander of the 3rd Cavalry Division of UfaUfa
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and then 3rd Cavalry Corps in the army of The Hetmanate
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. In 1919 Kislitsin served as a company commander in the Northern Army of Evgenii Miller
Evgenii Miller
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. In July of the same year, Vladimir Kislitsin was appointed commander of 2nd brigade of Ufa Cavalry Division under admiral Kolchak
Aleksandr Kolchak
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, in December 1919 he was appointed commander of 2nd Ufa Cavalry Division.
After the defeat of Admiral Kolchak's armies in the Ural
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and Western Siberia, Vladimir Kislitsin took part in the Great Siberian Ice march
Great Siberian Ice March
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. After arrival at Chita, Ataman Grigory Semyonov
Grigory Semyonov
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trusted into his hands the 1st Ataman Semyonov Manchurian Detachment until the end of the White movement in Transbaikal
White movement in Transbaikal
The White movement in Transbaikal was a period of the confrontation between the Soviets and the Whites over dominance in Transbaikal from December 1917 to November 1920.-Initial stages:...
(1921-1922).
White emigre
Vladimir Kislitsin emigrated to HarbinHarbin
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in November 1922, where he became a dentist, but also served in the police. In Manchuria
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he was a head of local "legitimists" (legitimisti, in Russian легитимисты), who supported by Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich as a legal heir to Russian throne. In 1928 he was promoted to full general by Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich. In 1936 Kislitsin's memoirs ('In the fires of the Civil War: Memoires') were published in Harbin (then a part of Manchukuo
Manchukuo
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) by Nash Put publishing house. From 1938 to 1942 Kislitsin acted as a chairman of Bureau for Russian Emigrants in Manchuria (BREM), established by Japanese occupational forces.
He died in Harbin in 1944, where he was buried as well.
Further reading
- “General V.A. Kislitsin: From Russian Monarchism to the Spirit of Bushido,” Harbin and Manchuria: Place, Space, and Identity, edited by Thomas Lahusen, special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 99, no. 1 (Winter 2000)
See also
- White movementWhite movementThe White movement and its military arm the White Army - known as the White Guard or the Whites - was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces.The movement comprised one of the politico-military Russian forces who fought...
- Russian Civil WarRussian Civil WarThe Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...