VLADIMIR KAPPEL

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'Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel' (, —January 25, 1920) was a White Russian military leader.
During the First World War he was a Chief of the 347th Infantry Regiment's Staff and an officer in the 1st Army's Staff. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Kappel commanded the Komuch White Army group (1918) and from December of 1919 the Eastern Front of Aleksandr Kolchak.
Kappel was born in the Swedish-Russian family. He graduated in the Saint Petersburg Page Corps and then in the Nikolayevskoye Cavalry School and Nikolayevskaya Academy of the General Staff. Declaring himself as a monarchist, Kappel however said he would fight under any banner against Bolsheviks. Kappel's adherents and allies were known in Russian as ''kappelevtsy'' (каппелевцы). After execution of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in Irkutsk ''kappelevtsy'' were forced to undertake winter march toward Chita, known as "Great Siberian Ice march".
Kappel's tomb in Harbin was pulled down after assuming of power by Mao Zedong. On December 19, 2006 the remains of Kappel were transported for reinterment from China to Irkutsk.^[2] On January 13, 2007, Vladimir Kappel's remains were interred at Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

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1. By the orders from March 1, 1915, June 7, 1915 and January 27, 1916 (5th Army order no. 185)
2. Прах белого генерала Каппеля перевезли из Китая в Иркутск

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★ ''Каппель и каппелевцы''. ''Kappel and Kappelevtsy'', e-book.