July 15, 1891
Born Anatoly PepelyaevOne of the youngest generals in Russian history (27 years old). "The Siberian Suvorov." Brother of Viktor Pepelyaev, chairman of Kolchak's Council of Ministers, who was executed along with Kolchak.
Lord, teach me to remember the good of the people, show me the path of good service to the homeland.
Was born in Tomsk, in the family of a lieutenant general of the tsarist army Nikolai Pepeliaev.
He went to war in 1914 with the rank of lieutenant. He was at the front during the February Revolution—despite the unrest in the army, his unit was always combat-ready, and the soldiers sincerely respected him. Kerensky promoted to lieutenant colonel.
For myself, God knows, I seek nothing, neither glory nor wealth. Frankly, I despise it, I'm not a military man, at heart.
After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, he left for Tomsk—there was nothing else to do at the front. In the spring of 1918, he joined the headquarters of a secret organization. They were planning to overthrow the Bolshevik government in the city.
When representatives of the provincial Cheka arrived at one of the monasteries where Pepeliaev's detachment was hiding to requisition church valuables, Pepeliaev's men destroyed the Cheka detachment. The leaders of the Soviet of Deputies fled the city. In June 1918, power was established in Tomsk. Provisional Siberian Government.
Pepeliaev created the 1st Central Siberian Corps of the VSP and went east to liberate Siberia from the Bolsheviks. He took Krasnoyarsk, IrkutskLater, already a general, he was transferred to the West. He defeated the Reds in the Urals and took over the territory abandoned by the Bolsheviks. Permian — He ordered 20000 captured Red Army soldiers to be released to their homes.
After the defeat of Kolchak, from 1920 he lived in HarbinHe worked as a carpenter, a coachman, and a fisherman. In 1922, he decided to go on the Yakut campaign to help local rebels against the Bolsheviks.
The confrontation between Pepeliaev and the Red Army soldier Stroda It became the last major battle of the Civil War. Pepeliaev was defeated.
He ordered them to lay down their arms <> There were no insults, they were decent people, I'm glad there was no bloodshed
He spent 13 years in prison. He was released in 1936. A year later, he was arrested again. In January 1938, he was executed.
Ivan Stroda, by the way, was also executed. In 1937.