Alexander Kolchak

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak was a Russian statesman political and military figure oceanographer polar explorer 19001903 naval commander 19151917 During the Russian Civil War he became known as the leader of the White Movement In the territories of the former Russian Empire controlled by the movement he headed the military dictatorship regime in the positions of Supreme Ruler of Russia and Supreme Commander of the Russian Army until his death Participant of the RussianJapanese and the First World Wars St Georges cavalier The Admiral 1918 In January 1920 during the retreat of the white troops and the evacuation of the Entente forces from Siberia he was extradited to Irkutsk by the command of the Czechoslovak Corps to local authorities in exchange for the free movement of Czechoslovak echelons and allied military missions to Vladivostok On February 7 1920 he was shot by decree of the Irkutsk Military Revolutionary Committee of February 6 1920 headed by the Bolsheviks and acting on the personal instructions of Vladimir Lenin Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the RSFSR