PYOTR NIKOLAYEVICH WRANGEL

(Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel)


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Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel

We are on the verge of events, the like of which the world has not seen since the time of the barbarian invasion. Soon everything that constitutes our lives will strike the world as useless. A period of barbarism is about to begin and it will last for decades.
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The seeds of revolution were sprouting. That year there were over 2400 strikes in Czarist Russia where a strike was unheard of just a few years before. Four years after this prediction, Russia erupted in revolution and bloody civil war. The standard of living for all Russians would crash and not recover for decades.

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Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel
  • Born: August 27, 1878
  • Died: April 25, 1928
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Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel was a Russian officer of Baltic German origin in the Imperial Russian Army. During the later stages of the Russian Civil War, he was commanding general of the anti-Bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia. After his side lost the civil war in 1920, he left Russia. He was known as one of the most prominent exiled White émigrés and military dictator of the South Russia (as commander in chief).