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Vasily Tchernetzov

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Allegiance
  
Russian Empire

Years of service
  
1909-1918


Rank
  
Colonel

Name
  
Vasily Tchernetzov

Born
  
March 22, 1890 (
1890-03-22
)

Died
  
January 23, 1918(1918-01-23) (aged 27)

Service/branch
  
Russian Imperial Army, Don Army

Commands held
  
Tchernetzov's Partisans

Vasily Mihailovich Tchernetzov (Russian: Васи́лий Миха́йлович Чернецо́в) (March 3, 1890 – January 23, 1918) was a Don Cossack Russian Imperial Army officer who served as a colonel in the Don Army during the Russian Civil War. He led Tchernetzov's Partisans, an independent irregular Don Cossacks military company commissioned after the Act of Ataman by Alexey Kaledin on November 7, 1917.

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Awards

  • Order of St. Anna of 4th degree
  • Order of St. Anna of 3rd degree
  • Order of Saint Stanislaus of 3rd degree
  • Order of Saint Stanislaus of 2nd degree
  • Order of St. Vladimir of 4th degree
  • Gold Sword for Bravery
  • Literature

    The deaths of Colonel Tchernetzov and his Partisans by Bolsheviks are part of the plot of the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

    References

    Vasily Tchernetzov Wikipedia