Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (August 15, 1878, Zarasai, Lithuania (then Imperial Russia) - April 25, 1928, Brussels, Belgium), was an officer in the Imperial Russian army and later commanding general of the pro-monarchist White Army in Southern Russia in the later stages of the Russian Civil War. Wikipedia
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After graduating from the Institute of Mining Engineering (1901), Wrangel volunteered for the Cavalry Regiment and in 1902 he was promoted to an officer 's rank. Wrangel took part in the Russo-Japanese War . In 1906, he became a member of the punitive e www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Pyotr_Nikolayevich_Wrangel