Vladislav Klembovsky

Vladislav Napoleonovich (Vladimir Nikolayevich) Klembovsky
Владислав Наполеонович (Владимир Николаевич) Клембовский
Klembovskij Vladislav in 1920
BornJune 28, 1860
Moscow Governorate
DiedJuly 19, 1921 (aged 61)
OccupationMilitary commander during World War I

Vladislav Napoleonovich (Vladimir Nikolayevich) Klembovsky (Russian: Владислав Наполеонович (Владимир Николаевич) Клембовский; 28 June 1860 in Moscow Governorate – 19 July 1921) was a Russian military commander during World War I.

Alexander Kerensky, head of the Russian Provisional Government after the overthrow of the Tsar, appointed him Supreme Commander in Chief of the Russian Army in August 1917, replacing Lavr Kornilov.[1]

Klembovsky later joined the Red Army as a volunteer, but was arrested after the Red army's defeat in Poland by the Bolsheviks and starved to death in prison.[2]

  1. ^ Kerensky's August 1917 denunciation of General Kornilov Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  2. ^ Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1986, 2008 Eng. trans.). The Red Wheel, March 1917, Node III, Book 1. (p.647). University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana