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Lavr Kornilov

Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Russian: Лавр Гео́ргиевич Корни́лов, IPA: [ˈlavr ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐrˈnʲiləf]; 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1870 – 13 April 1918) was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War. Kornilov was of Siberian Cossack origin. Today he is best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor in August/September 1917 that was intended to strengthen Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, but which led to Kerensky eventually having Kornilov arrested and charged with attempting a coup d'état, and ultimately undermined Kerensky's rule.[1]

Lavr Kornilov

(1870-08-30)30 August 1870
Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semirechye Oblast, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire

13 April 1918(1918-04-13) (aged 47)
near Yekaterinodar, Russian SFSR

 Russian Empire (1892–1917)
Russia White Movement (1917–1918)

Imperial Russian Army
Russia White Army

1892–1918

General of the Infantry

Kornilov escaped from jail in November 1917 and subsequently became the military commander of the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army which took the charge of anti-Bolshevik opposition in the south of Russia. He and his troops were badly outnumbered in many of their encounters, and he was killed by a shell on 13 April 1918 while laying siege to Ekaterinodar, the capital of the Kuban Soviet Republic.

Memorials[edit]

On 13 April 2013, a monument to the late General was erected in Krasnodar.[18] Commemoration ceremonies took place with local cossacks, along with Cossacks from Don, Stavropol and Taman.[19]

third degree (1901), 2nd degree (1904 and 1906 with swords)

Order of St. Stanislaus

3rd degree (1903) and 2nd degree (6 December 1909)

Order of St. Anne

4th degree (9 August 1905) and 3rd degree (28 April 1915)

Order of St. George

(9 May 1907)

Gold Sword for Bravery

Badge of the 1st Kuban (Ice) campaign (3 October 1918), issued posthumously, No.1 out of 3,689

[20]

Asher, Harvey. "The Kornilov Affair: A Reinterpretation." Russian Review (1970) 29#3 pp: 286–300. Archived 2017-03-20 at the Wayback Machine

in JSTOR

Grebenkin, I. N. "General L.G. Kornilov: A Rough Sketch for a Character Portrait." Russian Studies in History 56.3 (2017): 188–211.

Katkov, George. Russia 1917, the Kornilov Affair: Kerensky and the Break-up of the Russian Army (Longman, 1980)

Mawdsley, Evan. The Russian Civil War (2008)

Moncure, James A. ed. Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450-Present (4 vol 1992) 3:1082-90

White, James D. "The Kornilov affair—a study in counter‐revolution," Europe‐Asia Studies (1968) 20#2 pp 187–205.

Yang, Ho-Hwan. "Different Ways of Interpreting the Kornilov Affair: A Review of George Katkov's The Kornilov Affair: Kerensky and the Break-up of the Russian Army, London and New York: Longman, 1980" The SNU Journal of Education Research (1993) pp 17–28. Archived 2013-12-25 at the Wayback Machine

online

; Vinogradoff, Paul (1922). "Kornilov, Lavr Georgievich" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.).

Danilov, Yuri