In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Denikin.
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Anton Denikin
Антон Деникин
Portrait, c. 1918–1919
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of South Russia
In office 8 January 1919 – 4 April 1920
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Pyotr Wrangel
Personal details
Born
(1872-12-16)16 December 1872 Vlotslavek, Warsaw Governorate, Vistula Land, Imperial Russia (now Włocławek, Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
Died
7 August 1947(1947-08-07) (aged 74) Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Spouse
Xenia Chizh
Relations
Marina Denikina (daughter)
Awards
See below
Military service
Allegiance
Imperial Russia (1890–1917) White Movement in Southern Russia (1917–1920)
Branch/service
Imperial Russian Army White Army
Years of service
1890–1920
Rank
Lieutenant general
Battles/wars
Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War
Kuban Offensive
Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Russian: Антон Иванович Деникин, IPA:[ɐnˈtonɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕdʲɪˈnʲikʲɪn]; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1872 – 7 August 1947) was a Russian military leader who served as the acting supreme ruler of the Russian State and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923. Previously, he was a general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I.
His forces' implementation of the White Terror was known for pogroms.[1]
^Hochschild, Adam (7 October 2022). "Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets' Archenemies". The Atlantic. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Russian: Антон Иванович Деникин, IPA: [ɐnˈton ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ dʲɪˈnʲikʲɪn]; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1872 – 7 August 1947) was...
influential leader Winston Churchill (1874–1965) personally warned General AntonDenikin (1872–1947), formerly of the Imperial Army and later a major White military...
AntonDenikin's policies are the political activities carried out by Lieutenant General AntonDenikin during the period of his control of the forces of...
Russian writer. From 1918 until his death in 1947, she was married to AntonDenikin. Xenia Chizh was born in Biała Podlaska, then part of Congress Poland...
South Russia commander AntonDenikin in Novorossiysk, Kuban, in March 1920 during the Russian Civil War. On 27 March 1920, Denikin was forced to evacuate...
After the October Revolution, the arrested generals Lavr Kornilov, AntonDenikin, Sergey Markov and others were released by Commander-in-Chief Nikolay...
recognized the Supreme Ruler; at the turn of May — June 1919, the generals AntonDenikin, Yevgeny Miller, and Nikolai Yudenich voluntarily submitted to Alexander...
Most then merged there with Wrangel's forces. In early April 1920, AntonDenikin, commander-in-chief of the AFSR, delegated all authority to Pyotr Wrangel...
movement. In 1918, he became AntonDenikin's chief of staff in the Armed Forces of South Russia. Wrangel succeeded Denikin as commander-in-chief of the...
Siberia from Alexander Kolchak, and heading Cossack forces against AntonDenikin (1920). From 1920 to 1921 he commanded the Soviet Western Front in the...
the White movement, and he served as its principal leader, although AntonDenikin enjoyed more power than Kolchak. His government was based in Omsk, in...
General Alekseyev, the role of Supreme Leader was given to General AntonDenikin. Chairmen of the command were Abram Dragomirov (October 1918–September...
Commander-in-chief, General Alexander Lukomsky as its Chief of Staff, General AntonDenikin commander of the 1st Division, and General Sergey Markov as commander...
soldiers of the Russian White movement's Volunteer Army under General AntonDenikin began to clash with the North Caucasian peoples of the North Caucasus...
therefore tried to convince the commanders of the Volunteer Army, generals AntonDenikin and Mikhail Alekseev, to coordinate an attack on the city. However,...
Petliurists looked to form an alliance with the White movement under AntonDenikin. The anarchist insurgent movement itself, which had only two months...
countries. The United Kingdom formed an alliance with Russian general AntonDenikin and made efforts to reinstate Tsarist rule in the region. During the...
Piłsudski's prediction that the White Russian offensive under General AntonDenikin directed at Moscow would fail, and it did shortly thereafter. Churchill...
the Southern Front, the Armed Forces of South Russia under General AntonDenikin fight against the Red Army for the possession of the strategic region...
long trail of civilians from Rostov fearful of Bolshevik reprisals. AntonDenikin, Kornilov's second-in-command, later recalled, "We went from the dark...
the Southern Front of the Red Army against the White Guard troops of AntonDenikin. Combat operations were conducted by two offensive groups, the main...
Army until the summer of 1919, the Volunteer Army's commander, General AntonDenikin (in office 1918–1920), was at a disadvantage in his negotiations with...
the casualties in the latter operation was Kornilov, leaving General AntonDenikin to assume command of the Volunteer Army. In early May this so-called...
Global Information
Imperial Russia 
Imperial Russian Army
Lieutenant general