Vladimir Kappel

Infobox Military Person
name= Vladimir Kappel
lived= 1883-1920
placeofbirth= Saint-Petersburg Guberniya, Russian Empire
placeofdeath=Nizhneozyornaya village


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allegiance= White Army
serviceyears= 1903–1920
rank= General
commands= People Army of Komuch,
1st Volga Corps,
2nd Ufa Corps,
3rd West Army
unit=54th Novomirgorod Dragoon Regiment
battles= World War I, Russian Civil War
awards= Order of St. George 3rd class, Order of St. George 4rd class, Order of St. Vladimir 4th class, Order of St. Anne 2nd class, Order of St. Anne 3rd class, Order of St. Anne 4th class, Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd class, Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd class [By the orders from March 1, 1915, June 7, 1915 and January 27, 1916 (5th Army order no. 185)]
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Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel ( _ru. Влади́мир О́скарович Ка́ппель, OldStyleDate|April 28|1883|April 16—January 26, 1920) was a White Russian military leader.

During the First World War he was a Chief of the 347th Infantry Regiment's Staff and an officer in the 1st Army's Staff. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Kappel commanded the Komuch White Army group (People Army of Komuch) (1918, June - September) and from December 1919 the Eastern Front of Aleksandr Kolchak.

Kappel was born in the Swedish-Russian family. He graduated in the Saint Petersburg Page Corps and then in the Nikolayevskoye Cavalry School and Nikolayevskaya Academy of the General Staff. Declaring himself as a monarchist, Kappel however said he would fight under any banner against Bolsheviks. Kappel's adherents and allies were known in Russian as "kappelevtsy" (каппелевцы). After the execution of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in Irkutsk, the "kappelevtsy" were forced to undertake a winter march toward Chita, known as the "Great Siberian Ice march". General Kappel died of deep frostbite.

Kappel's tomb in Harbin was pulled down after Mao Zedong assumed power in China. On December 19, 2006 the remains of Kappel were transported for reinterment from China to Irkutsk.cite news |title= Прах белого генерала Каппеля перевезли из Китая в Иркутск |url= http://lenta.ru/news/2006/12/19/kappel/ | |publisher= |first= |last= |date= December 19, 2006|accessdate= 2006-12-22] On January 13, 2007, Vladimir Kappel's remains were interred at Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

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Further reading

*ru icon [http://www.rusk.ru/vst.php?idar=321703#og "Каппель и каппелевцы"] . "Kappel and Kappelevtsy", e-book.