Last commanding general of White Russian Forces during the Russian Civil War
For people with the same family name, see Wrangel.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Wrangel.
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General Baron
Pyotr Wrangel
Пётр Врангель
Pyotr Wrangel, The Black Baron
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of South Russia
In office 4 April 1920 – 21 November 1920
Preceded by
Anton Denikin
Succeeded by
Office disestablished
Personal details
Born
August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1878 Novalexandrovsk, Zarasai County, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
25 April 1928(1928-04-25) (aged 49) Brussels, Belgium
Awards
See below
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Russian Empire (1902–1917) White Movement (1917–1920)
Branch/service
Imperial Russian Army White Army
Years of service
1902–1920
Rank
Lieutenant General
Commands
Caucasus Army of South Russia
Battles/wars
Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Врангель, pronounced[ˈvranɡʲɪlʲ]; German: Peter von Wrangel; August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1878 – 25 April 1928), also known by his nickname the Black Baron, was a Russian officer of Baltic German origin in the Imperial Russian Army. During the final phase of the Russian Civil War, he was commanding general of the anti-Bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia.
A member of the prominent Wrangel noble family, Pyotr Wrangel was educated as a mining engineer and volunteered in the Russian Imperial Guard. He served with distinction during World War I as a cavalry commander, reaching the rank of major general. After the February Revolution and Russia's exit from the war, Wrangel retired to the Crimea. He was arrested by the Bolsheviks following the October Revolution, but was soon released[1][2] and later escaped and joined the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army of the White movement. In 1918, he became Anton Denikin's chief of staff in the Armed Forces of South Russia.
Wrangel succeeded Denikin as commander-in-chief of the White forces in the Crimea in April 1920. As head of the South Russia military government, he attempted to carry out sweeping land reforms, reorganised the White armies into a Russian Army (more commonly known the Army of Wrangel), and established relations with anti-Bolshevik independence movements. Severely outnumbered by the Red Army and facing certain defeat, Wrangel organised a mass evacuation from the Crimea in 1920. Early in his exile he lived in Constantinople and Serbia, and came to be known as one of the most prominent White émigrés.[3] He relocated to Brussels in 1927 and died a year later.
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Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Врангель, pronounced [ˈvranɡʲɪlʲ]; German: Peter von Wrangel; August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1878 –...
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leadership of Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Vladimir Sidorin, and PyotrWrangel. On 22 May, Wrangel's Caucasian army defeated the 10th Army (RSFSR) in the battle...
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there with Wrangel's forces. In early April 1920, Anton Denikin, commander-in-chief of the AFSR, delegated all authority to PyotrWrangel, who took command...
1922. In 1920, after the defeat of the Russian White army of General PyotrWrangel, a significant number of émigré soldiers and their families evacuated...
the White Army, PyotrWrangel, decided to evacuate. The operation had been preliminarily worked out and planned by General Wrangel's staff, so its implementation...
the east, while in mid-June the Kuban Cossacks under the command of PyotrWrangel carried out a cavalry assault on Tsaritsyn, which was repulsed. However...
the Armed Forces of South Russia. The Army of Wrangel, nicknamed after its commander General PyotrWrangel, fought against Bolshevik forces in the Southern...
Alaska Ferdinand Georg Friedrich von Wrangel (Ferdinand Ferdinandovich Wrangel, 1844–1919) PyotrWrangel (Peter von Wrangel, 1878–1928), a leader of the White...
the eastern end of the AFSR’s front, the Caucasian Army under Baron PyotrWrangel captured Tsaritsyn on 30 June. Despite the AFSR’s successes in the summer...
corps began. After four years of warfare, the Red Army's defeat of PyotrWrangel in the south in 1920 allowed the foundation of the Union of Soviet Socialist...
retreat discredited Denikin and he stepped down, succeeded by General PyotrWrangel, who was elected new Commander-in-Chief of the White Army by military...
Правительство Yuzhnorusskoye Pravitel'stvo) set up in February 1920. General PyotrWrangel was the pravitel' (правитель, "ruler") while the head of the government...
Russian Civil War, achieving major victories over the White Army of PyotrWrangel in Crimea and Nestor Makhno's anarchist movement in Ukraine. In 1921...
the Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia, who after the defeat of Gen PyotrWrangel's White Army in South Russia in November 1920 emigrated and in 1921 settled...
a battle was fought here between Red Army and the White troops of PyotrWrangel, who was in control of the Crimea. The Red Army turned out victorious...
nationalists) fight over the city of Kiev. Historical figures such as PyotrWrangel, Symon Petliura and Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky appear as the Turbin family...
Novorossiysk to the Crimea, where they merged with the Army of Wrangel under General PyotrWrangel. The term "Volunteer Army" is often used as a shorthand description...
Forces of the South of Russia that left for Crimea in May 1920, General Wrangel formed the armed forces that inherited the name "Russian Army" from the...
region. At the end of the Russian Civil War, the headquarters of General PyotrWrangel, leader of the anti-Bolshevik White Army, were located there. On 13...
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Russian Empire (1902–1917) 
Imperial Russian Army
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Lieutenant General