Russia Reburies White Heroes

[Austrvegr]

On 3 October, the remains of general Anton Denikin and philosopher Ivan Ilyin and their wives were brought to Russia and reburied at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

Anton Ivanovich Denikin
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Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Анто́н Ива́нович Дени́кин) (December 16, 1872 - August 8, 1947) was one of the foremost leaders of the counter-revolutionary White Russian forces in the civil war.
Born in Warsaw, he was the son of a low-ranking army officer. Skill and relentless ambition saw him tread a remarkable path away from his humble origins. He was educated at the Kiev Military School and the Academy of the General Staff. He first saw active service during the Russo-Japanese War.
In August 1914 Denikin was a Major-General and commander of the Kiev military district. He joined the Eighth Army, initially a Deputy Chief of Staff in September he was sent to Galicia to command the 4th Rifle Brigade.
In 1916 he was appointed to command VIII Corps and directed action in Romania during the last serious Russian assault of the war, the Brusilov offensive. Following the February Revolution he was Chief of Staff to Mikhail Alekseev, then Aleksei Brusilov and finally Lavr Georgevich Kornilov. Denikin supported the attempted coup of his commander, the Kornilov Affair, in September 1917 and was arrested and imprisoned with him. Alekseev was re-appointed commander-in-Chief.
Following the October Revolution both Denikin and Kornilov escaped to Novocherkassk in southern Russia and, with other Tsarist officers, formed the Volunteer Army, initially commanded by Alekseev.
Kornilov was killed in April 1918 near Ekaterinodar and the Volunteer Army came to be commanded by Denikin. There was some sentiment to place Grand Duke Nicholas in overall command, but Denikin was not interested in sharing power. In the face of a Communist counter-offensive he withdrew his forces back towards the Don area. He led one final assault of the southern White forces - an audacious attempt to capture Moscow in the summer of 1919. Overstretched, his army was decisively defeated at Orel in October, some 400km south of Moscow. The White forces in southern Russia were in constant retreat thereafter, eventually reaching the Crimea in March 1920.
Denikin resigned his post in April in favour of Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel and went into exile in France. From 1945 until his death he lived in the United States. He published two books The Career of a Tsarist Officer: Memoirs, 1872-1916 and The Russian Turmoil.
He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States in 1947. His daughter applied for the Russian citizenship and was granted it in 2005.
On October 3, 2005, in accordance with the wishes of his daughter, Marina Antonovna Denikina, and by authority of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, the remains of General Anton Ivanovich Denikin were transfered from the United States and reburied at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Ivanovich_Denikin

General Denikin during the Civil War



General Denikin in emigration



Ivan Ilyin

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Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (Russian: Ильин Иван Александрович ) (March 28, 1883 - December 21, 1954) was a Russian religious and political philosopher, and émigré anti-communist publicist.
Ivan Ilyin was born in Moscow in an aristocratic family. In 1906 he graduated from Moscow State University with a law degree and continued to work there after. In 1918 Ilyin became a professor of law in his university. In 1922, the new Bolshevik government expelled some 160 prominent intellectuals, Ilyin among them, on a "philosophers ship" for alleged anti-communist activity.
Between 1923 and 1934 Ilyin worked as a professor of the Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin. He became the main ideologue of the Russian White movement in emigration and between 1927 and 1930 was a publisher and editor of "Russian Kolokol (Bell)" journal. In 1934 German Nazis fired Ilyin and put him under police surveillance. In 1938 with financial help from Sergei Rachmaninoff he was able to leave Germany and continue his work in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ivan Ilyin was a conservative Russian monarchist in the Slavophile tradition. Starting from his 1918 scholarly thesis on Hegel's philosophy, he authored many books on political, social and spiritual topics pertaining to the historical mission of Russia. His views influenced other 20th century Russian authors such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as well as many Russian nationalists. As of 2005, 23 volumes of Ilyin's collected works have been republished in Russia.
The Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov, in partuclar, was instrumental in propagating Ilyin's ideas in Russia. He authored several articles about Ilyin and came up with the idea of transferring his remains from Switzerland to the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow, where the philosopher had dreamed to find his last retreat. The ceremony of reburial was held in October 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Ilyin

Ivan Ilyin in emigration





Reburial Ceremony

















Marina Denikina at her father's reburial

[Prinz Eugen]

That's great news .That's means that Russian find her destiny not only for her but for all Europe!

[Leland Gaunt]

I agree. Thanks for sharing, I haven't heard about this.

[Perun]

At my blog I gave my own analysis of this incident.

http://gloryukraine.blogspot.com/200...-reburied.html

Russian General reburied


Yesterday the remains of Russian General Anton Denikin were reburied in Moscow. Denikin was one of the leaders of the anti-Communist White forces during the Russian Civil War. Many are arguing that this is an attempt to heal the divisions that were created by that conflict. That may certainly be true concerning the Russian people, who have reasons to honour him as a hero; but sadly the same cannot be said concerning the Ukrainian people.

Denikin was a staunch enemy of Ukrainian nationhood, and stubbornly upheld the notion of "one, indivisible Russia". This stubborn attitude of his led him to unnecessary confrontations with the Ukrainian forces under Symon Petlura; especially since Petlura made offers for an alliance against their real common enemy the Bolsheviks. Denikin's refusal to forge alliances with Ukrainian nationalists even earned him criticism from fellow White leaders, especially Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak.

Denikin's attacks on Petlura not only served to weaken Ukrainian national forces(and nationhood as a whole) but also ironically his as well, which in the end only benefited the Bolsheviks. You could argue that Denikin was his own worst enemy.

Denikin's image among Russian may improve over time, but I remain highly skeptical of that ever happening among Ukrainians. So in many ways, the divisions of the Civil War will remain.



posted by Perun