Russian All-Military Union

Russian All-Military Union

Русский Обще-Воинский Союз
Lieutenant General Pyotr Wrangel with Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky), Archbishop Metropolitan Anastasius (Gribanovsky) and his wife, surrounded by officials of the ROVS. Belgrade, 1927
Formation	21 September 1924
Founder	Pyotr Wrangel
Commander	Igor Borisovich Ivanov

The Russian All-Military Union (Russian: Русский Обще-Воинский Союз, abbreviated РОВС, ROVS) is a White movement organization that was founded by White Army General Pyotr Wrangel in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 1 September 1924. It was initially headquartered in the town of Sremski Karlovci.^[1] The organization′s ostensible purpose was providing aid to the veterans of the Russian White movement (usually of the Imperial Russian Army as well), soldiers and officers alike, who had moved outside the Soviet Union.

The organization's undeclared aim was to maintain a Russian military organisation with a view to fighting the Bolsheviks. It and the more monarchist Russian Imperial Union-Order are the oldest organizations that represent the Russian White government-in-exile.^{[2][citation needed]} Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin a political philosopher, and white émigré journalist, was an ideologue of the Russian All-Military Union.