- Boris Savinkov
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (19 January 1879 - 7 May 1925) was a Russian writer and revolutionary terrorist. As one of the leaders of the Fighting Organisation of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, he was responsible for the most spectacular assassinations of imperial officials in 1904 and 1905. Later, he became Assistant War Minister in the Provisional Government. Savinkov emigrated in 1920, but in 1924 he made an endeavour to return to Russia, …
- Pyotr Krasnov
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov. However, Krasnov was defeated and taken prisoner. The Soviet authorities made him promise that he would not continue his struggle against the revolution and set him free. Krasnov fled to the Don region and in May of 1918 was elected Ataman of the Don Cossack Host. With the support from Germany, he equipped the army, which would oust the Soviets from the Don region in May-June of 1918.
- Anton Ivanovich Denikin
Anton Ivanovich Denikin was Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army (1916) and one of the foremost leading generals of the anti-Bolshevik White Russians in the civil war. Born in Szpetal Dolnyj village near the Polish city Włocławek (then part of the Russian empire), the son of a minor army officer, Denikin's skill and relentless ambition would soon see him tread a remarkable path. He was educated at the Kiev Military School and the Academy of the General Staff, …
- Lavr Kornilov
Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Russian: Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов) (August 18, 1870-April 13, 1918) was a senior Russian army general during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War. He is today best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful attempt in August/September 1917 to overthrow Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government which led to Alexander Kerensky freeing the Bolsheviks.
- Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel
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.
- Aleksandr Kolchak
Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak was a Russian naval commander and later head of part of the anti-Bolshevik White forces during the Russian Civil War.
- Pavel Bermondt-Avalov
Pavel Rafalovich Bermondt-Avalov was an Ussuri Cossack and warlord. Bermondt-Avalov was appointed to lead the German-established Russian army (subsequently frequently known after his name as "the Bermontians") which was meant to go to fight the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, but, believing that communists would be defeated without his help, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov decided to strike against the newly independent nations of Lithuania and Latvia instead.
- Pierre Gilliard
Pierre Gilliard (1879 - May 30, 1962), a Swiss citizen, was the French tutor for the five children of Tsar Nicholas II from 1905 to 1918. Years after the Imperial Family was assassinated by the Bolsheviks in July 1918, Gilliard wrote a book "Thirteen Years at the Russian Court," about his time with the family.
- Roman Ungern von Sternberg
Baron Roman Friederich Nickolaus von Ungern-Sternberg was a Baltic German-Russian lieutenant-general, one of the military commanders on the side of the White movement during the Russian Civil War, later an independent warlord in pursuit of pan-monarchist goals in Mongolia and territories east of Lake Baikal. Although born with the name "von Ungern-Sternberg", he later changed his name to "Ungern von Sternberg".
- Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (October 9 1907 - November 5 1982) was a noted French comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris.
- Boris Brasol
Boris Leo Brasol (or Brazol) (b. 1885 - d.?), a White Russian, Russian immigrant to the United States, and formerly a Lieutenant in the Tsar's military, is the person primarily responsible, together with Natalie de Bogory, for the first, annotated, USA edition, in book or booklet form, of the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, published in Boston, in 1920, by the prestigious publishing house of Small, …
- Andrei Shkuro
Andrei Grigoriyevich Shkuro (January 19 1887 (O.S.: January 7) - January 17 1947) was a Lieutenant General (1919) of the White Army.
- Vadim Yakovlev
Vadim Yakovlev was a Russian Cossack cavalry commander, in the rank of yesaul. A veteran of the World War I, during the Russian Civil War he commanded a Cossack brigade in the ranks of Gen. Anton Denikin's White Russian army in Ukraine. Following Denikin's defeat, Yakovlev crossed the Bolshevik lines and with his men joined the Red Army as the commander of the 3rd Don Cossack Cavalry Brigade. Attached to the Semyon Budyonny's 1st Cavalry Army, …
- Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams
Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams (November 13, 1869, Saint Petersburg - January 12, 1962, Washington, DC, Ariadna Borman during the first marriage) was a Russian liberal politician, journalist, writer and feminist.
- Mikhail Alekseev
Mikhail Vasiliyevich Alekseev was a Russian military leader before and during World War I, and one of the leaders of anti-Bolshevik forces in 1917-1918.
- Grigory Semyonov
Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, or Semenov (September 13(25), 1890-August 30, 1946), was leader of the counterrevolution in the Baikal region and beyond in 1917-1920, Lieutenant General (1919). Semyonov graduated from Orenburg Military School in 1911. He took part in World War I and became a yesaul. In July of 1917, Semyonov was appointed Commissar of the Provisional Government in the Baikal region, …
- Mikhail Diterikhs
Mikhail Diterikhs was a Russian general and a key figure in the White movement in Siberia, during the Russian Civil War. Diterikhs was born to a father of Czech ancestry who served a general of the Russian Imperial Army in the Caucasus. In 1900, Diterikhs graduated the Pazhevsk cadet corps and served in Turkestan. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War after which he served in the imperial army's headquarters.
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Of Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia ("Olga Alexandrovna Romanova") (June 13, 1882-November 24, 1960) was the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia under the reign of her elder brother, Czar Nicholas II. Her father was the 19th century reformer of Russia, Alexander III; her mother was the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, Maria Feodorovna, formerly titled Princess Dagmar of Denmark. Raised at the Gatchina Palace of St. Petersburg, Russia, …
- Nikolai Tolstoy
Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (23 June 1935) is a prominent Russo-British historian and author, who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy.
- Otto Struve
Otto Struve was a Russian-American astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве); however, he spent most of his life and his entire scientific career in the United States. He was the son of Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, who were Russian astronomers of ethnic German origin.
- Nikolai Skoblin
Nikolai Skoblin (1892-1938?) was a general in the counterrevolutionary White Russian army, a member of the expatriate Russian All-Military Union (ROVS)p, a Soviet double agent, and husband to the gypsy folk-singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya (1882-1941). Skoblin was a cavalry officer in the Kornilov Division of the White Russian Army during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920. He was known for both his bravery and cruelty.
- Evgenii Miller
Evgenii Karlovich Miller was Russian general and one of the leaders of counterrevolutionary White movement during and after Russian Civil War.
- Nina Berberova
Nina Nikolaevna Berberova (26 July 1901 - 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia. Berberova left Russia in 1922 with poet Vladislav Khodasevich (who died in 1939). The couple lived in several European cities before settling in Paris in 1925.
- Alexander Kutepov
Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov (9.16(28).1882 — 1930) was a Russian counterrevolutionary in South Russia and White Army General (1920). Kutepov graduated from Junker Infantry School in St.Petersburg in 1904. As a young infantry officer he fought in the Russo-Japanese War, where he was wounded in action and decorated for valor. In 1906 he was transferred to the Preobrazhensky Regiment, an elite guard's regiment.
- Vladimir Kappel
Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel 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 (1918) and from December of 1919 the Eastern Front of Aleksandr Kolchak. Kappel was born in the Swedish-Russian family.
- Vladimir Kokovtsov
Count Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov was a Russian statesman during the reign of Nicholas II of Russia.
- Ludwig Struve
Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig Struve (November 1 1858 - November 4 1920 <sup></sup>) was a Russian astronomer, part of the famous Struve family of astronomers. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Lyudvig Ottovich Struve (Людвиг Оттович Струве) or Lyudvig Ottonovich Struve (Людвиг Оттонович Струве).
- Jin Shuren
Jin Shuren, governor of Xinjiang, succeeded Yang Zengxin after Yang was assassinated in 1928. Jin ruled Xinjiang for about half a decade, and his reign was characterized by corruption and suppression. Under his rule, both ethnic and religion conflicts were greatly deepened, resulting in numerous riots against his regime, which eventually led to his downfall. Jin was blamed for starting ethnic and religious conflicts due to his corrupt practices.
- Boris Skossyreff
Boris Skossyreff was a presumably Russian adventurer who attempted to seize power in the European nation of Andorra during the early 1930s. Russian sources give his name in Cyrillic as Борис Скосырев, for which the modern English transliteration of his name would be Skosyrev. In January 1919 a Boris Skossyreff - aged 22 - a former translator for the Japanese Military Mission, …
- Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant (born 30 September, 1953) is an English/American film and television actress. Tennant was born in London. Her mother, Irina Baronova, was a white Russian prima ballerina who appeared with the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo. Her father, Cecil Tennant, was an English producer and talent agent who ran MCA's talent office and whose clients included Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud and Michael Redgrave.
- Alexander Dutov
Alexander Ilyich Dutov (1879—1921), one of the leaders of the Cossack counterrevolution in the Urals, Lieutenant General (1919). Dutov graduated from Nikolayevsky Cavalry School and General Staff Academy (1908). He was Assistant Commander of the Cossack regiment during the World War I of 1914-1918. After the February Revolution, Dutov was appointed head of the All-Russian Cossack Army Union, then Chairman of the counterevolutionary All-Russian Cossack Congress (June, …
- Maria Bochkareva
Maria Bochkareva (1889-1920) was a Russian woman who fought in World War I and formed the Women's Battalion of Death. Maria Bochkareva was born in Tomsk, Siberia in 1889. She left home aged fifteen to marry Afansi Bochkarev and they moved to Tomsk where they worked as laborers. When her husband began to assault her, Bochkareva left him and entered a relationship with a local named Yakov Buk. She and Buk established a butcher shop, but in May, 1912, …
- Alexander Guchkov
Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov was a Russian politician, Chairman of the Duma and Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government.
- Mikhail Drozdovsky
Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky. Russian army officer and one of the military leaders of the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War. Drozdovsky was born in Kiev in a general's family and started his military career early in life. At the end of Russia's involvement in the First World War he was a colonel in charge of an infantry division on the Romanian front. Soon after General Mikhail Alekseev started an anti-Bolshevik uprising in the Don region, …
- Boris Artzybasheff
Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965) was a Russian-born illustrator active in America, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs. Artzybasheff was born in Kharkiv, Russia (now in Ukraine), the son of Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev. He is said to have fought as a White Russian. In 1919 he arrived in New York City, where he worked in an engraving shop.
- Viktor Pokrovsky
Viktor Leonidovich Pokrovsky - Russian lieutenant general and one of the leaders of counterrevolutionary White Army during Russian Civil War.
- Gleb Krotkov
Gleb Krotkov (1901-January 29, 1968) was a Canadian academic and plant physiologist. Born in Moscow, Russian Empire, he joined the White Russian Navy. After the defeat of the White forces in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, he managed to escape to Prague. Later he emigrated to Canada and received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1934. He then joined the faculty of biology at Queen's University and taught there until his death.
- Henri Troyat
Henri Troyat, born Levon Aslan Torossian or Lev Aslanovich Tarasov(rus:"Лев Асланович Тарасов"), (November 1, 1911 - March 2, 2007) was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist of Armenian descent. Born in Moscow, his family fled Russia in fear of the coming revolution. After a long exile, the family settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree.
- Marina Denikina
Marina Antonovna Denikina (pen name: Marina Grey) (1919 - 2005) - daughter of Russian general Denikin, leader of the anti-bolshevik White Russians in the civil war. Born in Ekaterinodar (Russia) she lived in exile in France from 1926. She became a journalist and a producer at the French Radio and Television (working under the name of "Marina Grey"). She wrote several historical books about the Russian Civil War and her father, General Denikin.
- Damdin Sükhbaatar
Damdin Sükhbaatar (usually only Sükhbaatar, originally Sükh was a Mongolian military leader known for his excellent horsemanship capabilities. Sükh (which means "axe" in the Mongolian language) was probably born in Ikh Khüree and joined the nation's army in 1911. He was later forced to leave the army because of charges of insubordination. In 1917, he joined the army again, fought against the Chinese, …