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  2. Kornilov Shock Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The uniform of the Kornilov unit included a red and black cap, red and black should boards with a "K" on them and a skull and cross bones badge, and a blue patch on their sleeve with "Корниловцы" in white letters and a skull with crossed bones or swords beneath it. Below the patch were black and red chevrons. [3] [5]

  3. Lavr Kornilov - Wikipedia

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    But Boris Shaposhnikov, who served with Pyotr Kornilov, the brother of Lavr, in 1903, mentioned the "Kyrgyz" ancestry of their mother - this name was usually used in reference to Kazakhs in 1903. [7] Kornilov's Siberian Cossack father was a friend of Potanin (1835–1920), a prominent figure in the Siberian autonomy movement. [8]

  4. Ranks and insignia of the White Movement - Wikipedia

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    The so-called officer regiments (Alexeev, Drozdovsky, Kornilov and Markov regiments) had their own colors and uniforms. Initially, only former officers were accepted to these regiments, for which reason their ranks began with the 2nd lieutenant (podporuchik) upwards. In addition, the officer regiments introduced sleeve insignia (from 1 to 8 ...

  5. Caucasian Native Cavalry Division - Wikipedia

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    On 4 September 1917, Lavr Kornilov transformed the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division into the Caucasian Native Cavalry Corps, [29] by reinforcing it with the 1st Dagestan Regiment and Ossetian units. [30] During the course of the Kornilov affair, the corps was among the units ordered by Kornilov to march on Petrograd. [31]

  6. Pyotr Wrangel - Wikipedia

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    The last military and civilian personnel left Russia with Wrangel on board the General Kornilov on 14 November 1920. [citation needed] A commemorative plaque dedicated to Wrangel in the village of Ulyanovo in Kaliningrad Oblast. Notably, the plaque utilizes pre-revolutionary Russian, even though it was created in 2014.

  7. St. Peter and Paul Church, Luxembourg - Wikipedia

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    They were mostly the remains of part of General Lavr Kornilov. Professional military men were forced to beat swords into plowshares, remove the officer's uniform jacket and put on workers to start a new life in a foreign land, where only the work in the quarry or the factory could feed his families.

  8. Skull and crossbones (military) - Wikipedia

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    The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates. Since the decline of piracy, various military units have used the Jolly Roger, usually in skull-and-crossbones design, as a unit identification insignia or a victory flag to ascribe to themselves the proverbial ferocity and toughness of pirates.

  9. Uniforms and insignia of the Red Army (1917–1924) - Wikipedia

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    On 23 February 1917, [a] Russia burst into a revolution and with it came the fall of the Tsardom and the establishment of a Provisional Government. [3] The defining factor in the fall of the Autocracy was the lack of support from the military: both soldier and sailor rebelled against their officers and joined the masses. [4]