Maurice Janin
Military postcard of the Czechoslovak Legion with Maurice Janin
Birth namePierre Thiébaut Charles Maurice Janin
Born(1862-10-19)19 October 1862
7th arrondissement of Paris, France
Died28 April 1946(1946-04-28) (aged 83)
Saint-Sébastien, Isère, France
Allegiance France
Service/branch French Army
RankDivisional general
Battles/warsFirst World War
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
Alma materÉcole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (October 19, 1862, Paris[1] – April 28, 1946) was a French general (from April 20, 1916) and military commander who was the chief of the Allied military mission in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. As such, he commanded the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia.[2] Janin betrayed and detained[3][4][5] Supreme Leader and Commander-in-Chief of All Russian Land and Sea Forces Admiral Alexander Kolchak and handed him over to local Socialist-Revolutionaries in January 1920. In February 1920, the Bolsheviks executed Kolchak in Irkutsk.[6]

Biography

Janin studied at Special Military School at Saint-Cyr, which he graduated in 1882 . He later served in the 31st and 123rd Infantry Regiments.[7]

Awards

Janin was a recipient of the Latvian military Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class.[1] He was also awarded the Czechoslovak Military variant of Order of the White Lion in 1923.

In fiction

In the 2008 Russian biopic The Admiral, Janin is played by Richard Bohringer.

References

  1. 1 2 Priedītis, Ērichs Ēriks (1996). Latvijas Valsts apbalvojumi un Lāčplēši (in Latvian). Riga: Junda. ISBN 9984-01-020-1. OCLC 38884671.
  2. ↑ PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 str., vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karviná) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, ISBN 978-80-87173-47-3, pp. 8 - 52, 57 - 120, 124 - 128, 140 - 148, 184 - 199
  3. ↑ Хандорин, В. Г. Мифы и факты о Верховном правителе России. — М.: Общество развития русского исторического просвещения «Двуглавый орёл»; Издательство М. Б. Смолина (ФИВ), 2019. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-91862-057-1., p.235
  4. ↑ Мельгунов С. П. Трагедия адмирала Колчака: В 2 книгах. — Книга вторая: Часть III. — М.: Айрис-пресс, Лагуна-Арт, 2005. — 496 с. + вклейка 8 с. — (Белая Россия). — ISBN 5-8112-0547-3. — С. 443, 461.
  5. ↑ Флеминг, Питер Судьба адмирала Колчака. 1917—1920 / Пер. с англ. Л.А. Игоревского. — М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2006.— 252 с. — (Россия в переломный момент истории). ISBN 5-9524-2530-5, С. 235
  6. ↑ N. G. O. Pereira, "White Power during the Civil War in Siberia (1918–1920): Dilemmas of Kolchak's "War Anti-Communism," in: Canadian Slavonic Papers (1987) 29#1 pp 45–62.
  7. ↑ Tucker, Spencer C. (2014-10-28). World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 volumes]: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-965-8.
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