Yudenich, Nikolay

Yudenich, Nikolay

▪ Russian general
in full  Nikolay Nikolayevich Yudenich  
born July 18 [July 30, New Style], 1862, Moscow, Russia
died Oct. 5, 1933, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Fr.

      commander of the White forces in the northwest during the Russian Civil War (1918–20).

      Having entered the Imperial Army in 1879, Yudenich graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1887, served on the General Staff from 1887 until 1902, and then became a regimental commander. After participating in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), he was promoted to general (1905) and in 1913 was appointed chief of staff of the Caucasian military district. During World War I he commanded all Russian (Russian Civil War) troops in the Caucasus (1914–15 and February–October, 1917).

      After the Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917, Yudenich retired to Finland but later went to Tallinn, in Estonia. In May 1919 he launched an offensive toward Petrograd (St. Petersburg), but his volunteer army was driven back to Estonia. In July, Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak (head of the White, or anti-Bolshevik, government in Siberia) recognized him as commander in chief of the northwestern White armies. Yudenich organized the scattered White forces in the Baltic region into an army of 12,000 men. His lack of sympathy for the nationalism of the local Estonian government and his quarrels with his British advisers, however, brought about a decline in his political effectiveness. When he renewed his offensive in October 1919, in coordination with a White attack on Moscow from the south, the Red Army stopped him at Pulkovo, on the outskirts of Petrograd, and forced his army to retreat to Estonia and to disband (January 1920). Yudenich fled to France and died in exile.

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