Mikhail Diterikhs

Mikhail Diterikhs
Diterikhs in 1918
Born(1874-05-17)May 17, 1874
Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedSeptember 9, 1937(1937-09-09) (aged 63)
Shanghai, Republic of China
Allegiance Russian Empire
 Russian Republic
Service/branchRussian Empire Imperial Russian Army
Russian Republic White Army
RankGeneral
Commands heldRussian Salonika Force
Siberian Army
Zemskaya Rat
Battles/warsRusso-Japanese War
World War I
Russian Civil War

Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs (Russian: Михаи́л Константи́нович Ди́терихс, German: Michail Konstantinowitsch Diterichs; May 17, 1874 – September 9, 1937) served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently became a key figure in the monarchist White movement in Siberia and the Russian Far East area during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923.

Descended from Lutheran Sudeten German ancestors who became Baltic Germans,[1] Diterikhs had a reputation as "a deeply religious man, the walls of whose private railway coach were plastered with icons"; he saw himself as "waging a holy war against the Bolshevik heathens".[2]

  1. ^ Дитерихс Александр Иванович (Dieterichs Alexander Ivanovič)
  2. ^ Jamie, Bisher (2006) [2005]. White Terror: Cossack warlords of the Trans-Siberian. Abingdon, Oxon, England: Routledge. p. 285. ISBN 9781135765958.

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