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Born in Warsaw he was the son of a low-ranking army officer. Skill and relentless ambition saw him tread a remarkable path away from his humble origins. He was educated at the Kiev Military School and the Academy of the General Staff. He first saw active service during the Russo-Japanese War.
In August 1914 Denikin was a Major-General and commander of the Kiev military district. He joined the Eighth Army, initially a Deputy Chief of Staff in September he was sent to Galicia to command the 4th Rifle Brigade.
In 1916 he was appointed to command VIII Corps and directed action in Romania during the last serious Russian assault of the war, the Brusilov offensive. Following the February Revolution he was Chief of Staff to Mikhail Alekseev, then Aleksei Brusilov and finally Lavr Georgevich Kornilov. Denikin supported the attempted coup of his commander, the Kornilov AffairThe Kornilov Affair was the failed military coup by General Lavr Kornilov against the Provisional Government of Aleksandr Kerensky in September 1917, in between the fall of the Tsars and the October Revolution. Recently appointed Commander-in-Chief of the, in September 1917 and was arrested and imprisoned with him. Alekseev was re-appointed commander-in-Chief
Following the October RevolutionThis article is about the October Revolution in Russia. See October Revolution (disambiguation) for other meanings. The October Revolution also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instig both Denikin and Kornilov escaped. They fled to Novocherkassk in southern Russia to meet up with other Tsarist officers and form the Volunteer ArmyThe Volunteer Army in Russian, or Dobrovolcheskaya armiya) was a counterrevolutionary army in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918- 1920. The Volunteer Amy (VA) began forming in November- December of 1917 by General Mikhail Alekseev in Novoch, initially commanded by Alekseev.
Kornilov was killed in April 1918 near Ekaterinodar and the Volunteer Army came to be commanded by Denikin. In the face of a Communist counter-offensive he withdrew his forces back towards the Don area. He led one final assault of the southern White forces - an audacious attempt to capture MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is in the summer of 1919. Over stretched his army was decisively defeated at OrelOrel or Oryol is a city in Russia, administrative center of the Oryol Oblast. It is located on the Oka River, approximately 200 km south-south-west nearby Moscow. Founded in 1566 as fortress. Population 328,000 (1985). Cities in Russia. in October, some 400km south of Moscow. The White forces in southern Russia were in constant retreat from then, reaching the CrimeaThe Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea Ukrainian transliteration: Avtonomna Respublika Krym Ukrainian: Russian: is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. It was called Tauric or Scythian Che in March 1920.
Denikin resigned his post in April in favour of Pyotr Nikolayevich WrangelPyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel in Russian) ( August 15, 1878 — April 25, 1928), baron, one of the leaders of the counterrevolution in Southern Russia, Lieutenant General (1917). After graduating from the Institute of Mining Engineering (1901), Wrangel volunte and went into exile in France and from 1945 in the USA. He published two books The Career of a Tsarist Officer: Memoirs, 1872-1916 and The Russian Turmoil.
He died in Ann Arbor in 1947.
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