(1870-08-30)30 August 1870 Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semirechye Oblast, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire
Died
13 April 1918(1918-04-13) (aged 47) near Yekaterinodar, Russian SFSR
Allegiance
Russian Empire (1892–1917) White Movement (1917–1918)
Service/branch
Imperial Russian Army White Army
Years of service
1892–1918
Rank
General of the Infantry
Commands held
Black Sea Fleet (1916–1917)
Russian Army (1917–1918)
Battles/wars
Russo-Japanese War
World War I
Russian Civil War
Awards
Order of St. George (twice)
Order of Saint Anna
Order of Saint Stanislaus
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Russian: Лавр Гео́ргиевич Корни́лов, IPA:[ˈlavrɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕkɐrˈnʲiləf]; 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1870 – 13 April 1918) was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War. Kornilov was of Siberian Cossack origin. Today he is best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor in August/September 1917 that was intended to strengthen Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government[dubious – discuss], but which led to Kerensky eventually having Kornilov arrested and charged with attempting a coup d'état, and ultimately undermined Kerensky's rule.[1]
Kornilov escaped from jail in November 1917 and subsequently became the military commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army which took the charge of anti-Bolshevik opposition in the south of Russia. He and his troops were badly outnumbered in many of their encounters, and he was killed by a shell on 13 April 1918 while laying siege to Ekaterinodar, the capital of the Kuban Soviet Republic.
^"Kornilov Affair". Soviethistory.org. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
Kornilov (born 1986), Russian ski jumper Ivan Kornilov (1899–1953), Soviet general Konstantin Kornilov (1879–1957), Soviet psychologist LavrKornilov...
met by the counter-demonstrations organised in his support. General LavrKornilov, commander of the Petrograd military district, wished to suppress the...
republicans, rightists, or Kadets. Among White Army leaders, neither General LavrKornilov nor General Anton Denikin were monarchists, yet General Pyotr Nikolayevich...
Finnish Whites. After the October Revolution, the arrested generals LavrKornilov, Anton Denikin, Sergey Markov and others were released by Commander-in-Chief...
Russian Provisional Government. On August 24, 1917 Commander-in-Chief LavrKornilov appointed Krymov commander of the detached Petrograd Army (отдельная...
the town of Zborov from the Austrians. Further to the south, General LavrKornilov's Eighth Army was more successful, pushing back the Austrian Third Army...
problem – Kerensky's attempt to dismiss Gen. LavrKornilov led to a failed coup. Following the failure of Kornilov's coup, Kerensky proclaimed Russia to be...
Denikin, while Alexey Kaledin commanded the 12th Cavalry Division and LavrKornilov was in command of 48th Infantry Division. In the early part of 1915...
policy, chaos in industry and chaos in the nationalist questions". LavrKornilov, appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army in July 1917, considered...
1917 under the leadership of General Mikhail Alekseyev and General LavrKornilov in Novocherkassk, shortly after the Russian Civil War began following...
joined by other prominent tsarist generals, including the charismatic LavrKornilov. The two men, along with Kaledin, assumed top roles in the anticommunist...
by LavrKornilov. According to Peter Kenez, "As Denikin remarks, it was obvious from the first moment that cooperation between Alekseev and Kornilov would...
Ekaterinburg, and other cities. In what became known as the Kornilov affair, General LavrKornilov, who had been Commander-in-Chief since 18 July, with Kerensky's...
officers, and under the command of General Mikhail Alekseyev and General LavrKornilov. The Cossacks aimed primarily to defend their independence, but the...
Supreme Commander in Chief of the Russian Army in August 1917, replacing LavrKornilov. Klembovsky later joined the Red Army as a volunteer, but was arrested...
Ilya Ulyanov (1/2 Kalmyk) Oka Gorodovikov - Red Army cavalry general LavrKornilov - Imperial Russian Army general, commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer...
leaders remained in prison until Kerensky released them in response to the Kornilov Affair. For the sake of restoring civil order, the government also restricted...
war, and moderate socialists. The Kornilov Affair arose when Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General LavrKornilov, directed an army under Aleksandr Krymov...
Alexander Kerensky appointed LavrKornilov as the head of the army to restore order. But the Stavka supported Kornilov when he attempted a military coup...
Republic Grand Duke Nicholasa • Mikhail Alekseyev • Aleksei Brusilov • LavrKornilov • Alexander Kerenskyb • Nikolay Dukhonin Russian SFSR Nikolai Krylenko...
Chief of Staff to Mikhail Alekseev, then Aleksei Brusilov, and finally LavrKornilov. Denikin was concurrently commander of the Southwestern Front from 20...
role in the attempted coup against Prime Minister Kerensky by General LavrKornilov. Savinkov remained in Russia after the October Revolution and organised...
of the Bolsheviks and an attempted military coup by commanding Gen. LavrKornilov to eliminate the socialists from the provisional government. As the...
her to take a message to General LavrKornilov, who was commanding a White Army in the Caucasus. After leaving Kornilov's headquarters, she was again detained...
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