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General V.M. Moltchanoff's Oral Memoirs View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Siberian Federal University Digital Repository Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 2 (2009 2) 209-214 ~ ~ ~ УДК 94(47+57) General V.M. Moltchanoff’s Oral Memoirs Evgeny V. Volkov* South-Ural State University, 76 Lenin’s pr., Chelyabinsk, 454080 Russia 1 Received 23.03.2009, received in revised form 30.03.2009, accepted 6.04.2009 The oral memoirs of General V.M. Moltchanoff, who was one of the military leaders of the White Movement in Russia during the Civil War, are interpreted. These memoirs give new information about the pre-revolutionary period of the Russian Army, the Civil War and Russian emigration to the USA. Keywords: Historical memory, Oral History, the Civil War, White Movement, Russian emigration. Victorin Mihailovich Moltchanoff is the Russia. After that, Moltchanoff was demobilized general of White Movement who was a very and went to Chistopol, where his mother lived. popular person in Russia during the Civil War. Soon he became the leader of the peasant He had a very interesting biography. His name detachment, that fought against Bolsheviks. is often mentioned in the memoirs of Russian In January 1919 Moltchanoff joined Kolchak’s emigrants, writings of historians and writers. Army and lead the Izhevsk brigade composed The general didn’t leave memoirs, but he left his of Izevsk’s workers. This brigade fought against recorded oral stories, which were made in January, the Red Army very effectively. Later it was 1970. This oral history of V. M. Moltchanoff is reorganized into the division. After the retreat very interesting. His oral stories and opinions of the White Army in Baikal region Moltchanoff give new information about the Russian officers, became the leader of the army corps. In December Russian Civil War and its consequences. 1921 he became the commander of the army, Moltchanoff was born in 1886 in Chistopol, which occupied Habarovsk. After the defeat of Volga region. He graduated form gymnasia and the White Army in Far East general Moltchanoff entered the military school in Moscow. After the emigrated to China. Then he went to Japan with graduation of the military school he served in his family. In 1923 he, his wife and their son Caucasus and Far East as the officer of Russian went to the USA where they settled down in Army. Then he took part in the First World War. San Francisco. Moltchanoff changed several During the Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd jobs. Finally, he was accepted to the post of the Moltchanoff was at the front near Baltic Sea. In superintendent of some American corporation. February 1918 Moltchanoff was wounded and The General lived a long life. He died in January captured by Germans. However, he managed to 1975 in San Francisco and was buried at Serbian escape and come back to the territory of Soviet cemetery in Colma (E.V. Volkov, N.D. Egorov, * Corresponding author E-mail address: [email protected] 1 © Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved – 209 – Evgeny V. Volkov. General V.M. Moltchanoff’s Oral Memoirs I.V. Kupzov, 2003). His whole life was the life of weeks B. Raymond met with old general, talked a Russian officer devoted to the fatherland. to him and recorded his stories. After that B. The name of general Moltchanoff is Raymond transferred them into written form. mentioned in memoirs of Russian emigrants. Now Moltchanoff’s oral history is in the archives Some former participants of White Movement of California University in Berkley. wrote the memoirs, where the activity of general The Moltchanoff’s oral memoirs of give Moltchanoff is described and the general is valuable information about the pre-revolution depicted as a hero (K.V. Saharov, 1923; P.P. Petrov, Russian army, the Civil War and Russian 1930; B.B. Philimonov, 1932; 1971; A.G. Efimov, emigration in the USA (V. M. Moltchanoff: The 1975). Unlike them, Soviet historians, who studied last white general, 1972). As in many memoirs the Civil War in Russia, showed Moltchanoff as people knowing the general in person, general the enemy of Soviet people (P.S. Parfenov, 1925; Moltchanoff looks in his own flashbacks as a hero, 1932: B.M. Shereshevsky, 1974; G.V. Kuz’min having only positive features and taking only G.V. 1977; M.I. Svetachev, 1983; The Civil War in right decisions. For example, reconstructing the USSR, 1986; A.D. Samoilov, 1986; I.I. Kartavcev, events of his service on Caucasus, he said that he 1988). The authors of the novels devoted to had successfully negotiated with one of the khans Russian Civil War, i.e. V. Zazybrin («Two worlds» without anybody’s help. In the period of the Civil 1921) and U. Semenov («Parol is not needed» War he did a brilliant military career, from that 1965) wrote about Moltchanoff too. They showed of a lieutenant colonel to the lieutenant-general, the general as brave and clever officer though as becoming one of the well-known military leaders the enemy (V.Y. Zazybrin, 1987; U.S. Semenov, of the White army on the East of Russia. Then, in 1991). In 1967 the film director B. Grigoryev emigration, he became the leader of the veterans made a movie on the basis of U. Semenov’s novel. of the revolt in Izhevsk and Votkinsk (1918). On All the white officers in the film were showed as the whole, the image depicted by the memoirs enemies and Moltchanoff was among them. Thus, portrayed the general as a bold and clever officer- studying historical records and fiction we can patriot, whose example we should follow. find the controversial information about general Being a military man, he is bold and Moltchanoff. sharp when characterizing military leaders The general didn’t write memoirs, but he and colleagues. Speaking about the relations left his oral stories recorded by Boris Raymond between the command personnel and the (B. Raymond) in January, 19701. For several soldiers in Tsar’s army, Moltchanoff, did not hide the truth and admitted the numerous cases 1 Boris Raymond was born of Russian parents in Har- bin, China, in 1925. His father, Dimitry Romanoff, was of bad behavior of officers, which oppressed a young officer of the Imperial Guard during the First the soldiers. Therefore, Moltchanoff put some World War. After the Revolution he lived in Siberia, in the ranks of Admiral Kolchak’s White army, with blame for the soldiers’ revolt on the officers who which he eventually retreated through Siberia to China, where Mr. Raymond was born. Mr. Raymond’s maternal grandfather, Boris Ostroumoff, played a prominent role of California, Berkeley where he received the B.A., M.A. in Manchuria as a general manager of the Chinese Far (Sociology), and M.L.S. degrees. In 1964 he joined the Eastern Railroad. Mr. Raymond was educated in French University Library staff as Russian bibliographer. He be- and British schools in Tientsin, Shanghai and Saigon. In came Assistant Director of Libraries, University of Man- April 1941 he came to San Francisco, where he gradu- itoba in Canada, in 1967. Since 1972 he was a teacher ated from George Washington High School in 1943. Af- in the Department of Sociology University of Winnipeg ter serving in the Army of the USA and seeing combat in Canada. Now Mr. Raymond is teacher in Dalhousie as an infantryman in Europe, Mr. Raymond returned to University (New Scotland, Canada), and is continuing California, where he began his studies at the University his research on the history of Russian emigration. – 210 – Evgeny V. Volkov. General V.M. Moltchanoff’s Oral Memoirs had not managed to cope with the misconduct be the hero of the First World War, and as soon as and abuses in the army. Moltchanoff got to know about the governmental The Moltchanoff’s impressions about the coup in Omsk in November 1918, he admitted his moods among the officers at the beginning of the power as Supreme Ruler legitimate. Moltchanoff First World War are very interesting. At that time never mentioned he had known Kolchak in many officers wanted to be directed to the front, person, though Kolchak was often at the front as they were afraid the military campaign to be and must have seen Moltchanoff and might have soon over and they wouldn’t have the possibility spoken to him. to get rewards. The general accuses the military The general described one interesting command of the Russian army for doing nothing episode. Once Moltchanoff was asked whether to save the officer corps. Many Russian officers his division would be able to take Kolchak under died on the fields of the First World War. the guard during the defeat of White troops and Moltchanoff mentioned an interesting fact, their katabasis to the East of Russia. Certainly, which is very characteristic for the soldiers’ views Moltchanoff could not give a negative answer. on the events of 1917. It shows their attitude to the So the question, set forward by the General personality of Nickolay II after his abdication. Headquarters, was apparently formulated with They suppose German wife of the Tsar is the the participation of Kolchak and it vividly shows cause of the misfortunes in Russia. the degree of Kolchak’s trust to Moltchanoff. Certainly, the greatest part of the general’s Moltchanoff considered general M.V. oral memoirs is devoted to the Civil War. He Khanzhin, the Commander of the Western spoke much about the soldiers and officers of the army and the Military Minister of Kolchak’s White Army.
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