White General Vasily Georgievich Boldyrev is a mysterious figure. Encyclopedia of the Chelyabinsk region

Boldyrev Vasily Georgievich (5.4.1875, Syzran, Simbirsk province - 1932), Russian. Lieutenant General (29.4.1917). The son of a peasant. He received his education at the Penza Land Surveying and Military Topographical Schools (1895), and the Nikolaev General Staff Academy (1903). From 12/8/1904 chief officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the IV AK. Participant in the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-05, was wounded. From 10/28/1906 senior adjutant of the XVIII headquarters, from 9/8/1907 - XX AK. From 29.3.1909, staff officer for assignments at the headquarters of the XX AK, from 8.1.1911, staff officer, head of officers studying at the Nikolaev Military Academy. In 1914 he defended his dissertation “Attacks of fortified positions”, and since 1914 he has been an extraordinary professor. In Aug. 1914 - went to the front as an acting commander. Chief of Staff of the 2nd Guards Infantry. divisions. For the battles in Oct. 1914, near the Ivangorod fortress, he was awarded the Arms of St. George, and for the battles near Jedwabno in 1914-15 - the Order of St. George, 4th degree. In 1915, the commander of the 30th Infantry. Poltava Regiment. From 29.2.1916 general for assignments under the commander of the 4th Army, from 8.9.1916 quartermaster general of the headquarters of the armies of the Northern Front. After the February Revolution, on April 19, 1917, he was appointed commander of the XLIII AK (109th and 110th infantry divisions). B.'s corps bore the brunt of the German troops during the Riga operation of 1917. August 19. (Sept. 1) German troops attacked his positions (3 divisions and the Latvian Rifle Brigade) near Ikskul, broke through them and crossed the Dvina. 9.9.1917 replaced by gene. Yu.N. Danilov as commander of the 5th Army. After the October Revolution and the appointment of ensign N.V. Krylenko Supreme Commander-in-Chief, B. refused to obey him and on November 13. was arrested; Soon, on charges of sabotage, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison. In May 1918 he was released under an amnesty. He was a member of the leadership of the Union for the Revival of Russia and the National Center. On Sept. 1918 elected a member of the Directory (Ufa) and appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces fighting against the Soviet Republic. After the coup A.V. Kolchak was exiled to Japan on November 18, 1918, where he actively supported the intervention. After the fall of Kolchak, he returned to Vladivostok and became part of the Siberian government. In Apr.-Dec. 1920 Commander-in-Chief of the land and naval forces of the Primorsky Regional Land Administration, at the same time in May - December, manager of the naval department. From 18.6.1921 to 11.6.1922 Chairman of the Russian-Japanese Conciliation Commission, member of the Presidium and fellow Chairman of the People's Assembly. After the capture of Vladivostok by the Red Army on November 5, 1922, he was arrested. In prison he declared his readiness to serve the Soviet regime. Amnestied in 1926. Since 1926, military teacher. sciences of “natural production forces of Siberia and their performers” (Novosibirsk). He worked in Novosibirsk in the Siberian Planning Commission, chairman of the “Subsoil” section of the Society for the Study of Siberia.

Book materials used: Zalessky K.A. Who was who in the First World War. Biographical encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow, 2003

Sitting: Yu.N. Danilov, N.V. Ruzsky, R.D. Radko-Dmitriev. A.M. Dragomirov.
Standing: V.G. Boldyrev, I.Z. Odishelidze, V.V. Belyaev, E.K. Miller.

Boldyrev Vasily Georgievich (April 5, 1875, Syzran - 1933, near Novosibirsk), - from a poor peasant family. He received his secondary specialized education in Penza, and his military education at the Military Topographical School in St. Petersburg. In 1903 he graduated with honors from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. Participated in the Russo-Japanese War as part of the headquarters of the 22nd Infantry Division, and was wounded three times. In 1911 he was invited to give lectures at the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. In 1914 he defended his dissertation on the topic “Attack of fortified positions”, after which he was appointed extraordinary professor. He taught a course on tactics of technical troops, and paid considerable attention to issues of the combat use of heavy artillery. Participant of the First World War. For personal leadership of the fire of heavy guns in the battles near Ivan-Gorod, he was awarded the Arms of St. George and the Order of St. George the Victorious. In 1915, commanding the 30th Poltava Infantry Regiment, he won a brilliant victory near Vilkolaz, for which he was promoted to major general, and then appointed to the post of Quartermaster General of the Northern Front. He was present at the abdication of Nicholas II, and at first he kept the act of his abdication. Commander of the 45th Artillery Corps on the Riga Front (from April 1917), in 1917 he became a lieutenant general. Commander of the 5th (according to other sources, 6th) Army since September 1917. After the October Revolution at the end of October 1917, on the orders of Krylenko, he was arrested “for non-recognition of Soviet power” and for disobeying the orders of the Soviet command, sentenced to 3 years in prison , but after 3.5 months he was released. Opponent of the Bolsheviks, close to the Social Revolutionaries. In March 1918, he was one of the founders and leaders of the Union for the Revival of Russia, on whose behalf he was instructed to get into the territory liberated from the Bolsheviks and try to organize the fight against the Reds and the German bloc. Member of the "National Center". At the beginning of August 1918 he arrived in Samara. During the State Conference in Ufa from September 8, 1918, he was there, became a member of its Council of Elders from the "Renaissance Union", was also elected a member of the Directory, after which he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of "all Russian armed forces" (from September 23 to 18 November 1918), actively fought against the Soviet Republic. At this time, he urgently demanded the establishment of firm power to realize military successes. A supporter of the transfer of power to the Constituent Assembly, by which he understood KOMUCH. Appointed Kolchak as Minister of War of the Directory. During his trip to the front on November 18, monarchist-minded officers carried out a coup d'état. He was nominated as a contender for the post of Supreme Ruler of Russia. He refused to recognize Kolchak’s power and accept “any position in the military leadership of Siberia,” as he was offered, and left for Japan. In October - November 1919 in Primorye, where he was one of the organizers of the Slavic Society. Gaida was invited to take part in the anti-Kolchak coup in Primorye, but refused, being in Japan at that time. The commandant of the Vladivostok fortress, the head of its garrison, abandoned the defense of Vladivostok due to the fact that only midshipmen remained at his disposal loyal to the White cause. The Bolsheviks intended to convict him in May - June 1920 in Omsk as a member of the Kolchak government, but due to the impossibility of bringing him to trial, he was not convicted. He returned to Russia with the Japanese army in 1920. For some time he was a member of the Primorsky Regional Zemstvo Council. At the same time he was the manager of the Naval Department, and on April 29, 1920 he signed the Russian-Japanese agreement “On the Neutral Zone” (April - December 1920). Commander of the armed forces of the Provisional Government of the Primorsky Regional Zemstvo Council in Vladivostok in 1921. After the establishment of the dictatorship of Merkulov (June 17, 1921 - June 11, 1922) - member of the presidium and deputy chairman of the "People's Assembly" and chairman of the "Russian-Japanese Conciliation Commission". During the occupation of Vladivostok by the Red Army in October 1922, he remained in the city. Arrested on November 5, 1922. He was imprisoned from 1922 to 1926. In 1923, he appealed to the All-Union Central Executive Committee with a petition for pardon and declared his desire to work with the Soviet government. He worked until 1926 in the Siberian Planning Commission, in the Society for the Study of Siberia and its Productive Forces, and was a member of the editorial board of the Siberian Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1926 – 1927 was a witness in the trial of Ataman Annenkov and his closest assistant General Denisov, in particular, he clarified the details of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising in the Slavgorod district during mobilization into the Siberian Army. The author of a number of scientific military works: “The Battle of the Shah”, “The Automobile and its Technical Application”, “The Technical Application of a Searchlight” and others, he left the memoirs “Directory. Kolchak. Interventionists." (Novonikolaevsk, 1925), which are a valuable source on the history of the Civil War. Repressed and shot.

Materials from the website of A.V. were used. Kvakina http://akvakin.narod.ru/

Boldyrev Vasily Georgievich (04/05/1875-08/20/1933). Major General (06/26/1915). Lieutenant General (1917). He graduated from the Military Topographical School (1895) and the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. Participant of the First World War: commander of the 45th Artillery Corps on the Riga Front (04.1917). Commander of the 5th Army (09.1917). Arrested (10.1917) for disobeying the orders of the Soviet command, soon released. Head of the “Union for the Revival of Russia” (03.1918). In the White Movement: Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army of the Ufa Directory and one of its leaders, 09.23-11.18.1918. (The Ufa directory was abolished by Admiral Kolchak on November 18, 1918). Deported to Japan on 11/1918, returned with the Japanese army on 01/1920; Commander of the Armed Forces of the Provisional Government (Primorsky Regional Zemstvo Government, Vladivostok), 01.1920 - 12.1922. At the same time - manager of the Naval Department; signed on 04/29/1920 the Russian-Japanese agreement on the “Neutral Zone”, 04-12/1920. After the establishment of the dictatorship of Merkulov (06/17/1921 - 06/11/1922) - member of the presidium and deputy chairman of the “People's Assembly” and chairman of the “Russian-Japanese Conciliation Commission”. After the establishment of Soviet power in Vladivostok (10.1922), he was arrested (11/05/1922). In custody 05.11.1922-1926. Released (amnestied) in 1926 after his declaration of desire to serve Soviet power. Worked in various institutions in Siberia. Arrested for the second time on December 23, 1933, on charges of organizing a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Shot.

Materials used from the book: Valery Klaving, Civil War in Russia: White Armies. Military-historical library. M., 2003.

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Boldyrev Vasily Georgievich , military leader, participant in Russian-Japanese (1904-05), 1st world. and Citizen wars, lieutenant general (1918). From the peasants of Simbirsk province. Graduated from the Penza Land Surveying School (1893), military topographer school (1895), Nikolaev Academy of General. headquarters for the 1st category (1903). He entered service in 1893 and was released as a second lieutenant in the Military Corps. topographers (1895), lieutenant (1898), staff captain (1901), captain (1903), lieutenant colonel (1908), colonel (1908), major general (1915). Served qualifying command of a company in the 145th Infantry Novocherkassk Empire. Alexander III regiment (1903-04). In Russian-Japanese During the war he was wounded during the assault on the Novgorod hill in Manchuria. Chief officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the 4th Army. Corps (1904-06), senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 18th Army. Corps (1906-07), senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 20th Army. Corps (1907-09), staff officer for assignments at the headquarters of the 20th Army. buildings (1909-11); staff officer, head officers studying in the Imperial Nicholas Military. Academy (1911-14). In the beginning 1914 defended his thesis. “Attacks on fortified positions”; extraordinary academy professor. To the 1st world. the beginning of the war headquarters of the 2nd Guard. infantry division Since 1915, the commander of the 30th Poltava Infantry Regiment, with the Crimea won a number of victories in the battles of Lublin and Wilkoloz, for which he was promoted to major general. Since 1916, general for assignments under commands. 4th Army. Quartermaster General of the Northern Army Headquarters. front (Sept. 1916 - Apr. 1917), commander of the 43rd Army. corps (Apr. - Sep. 1917), command. 5th Army (9 September - 13 November 1917). Order awarded St. George 4th degree. (1915), St. Vladimir 2nd step, with swords and bow (1916), 3rd step, with swords (1915) and 4th step, with swords and bow (1906), St. Anna 1st step, with swords (1917), 2nd step. (1909) and swords to him (1916), 3rd step. (1907) and swords and a bow to it (1914), St. Stanislav 1st step, with swords (1917), 2nd step, with swords (1907) and 3rd step, St. George's weapon (1915). After Oct. 1917 arrested by the Bolshevik N.V. Krylenko, sentenced to 3 years in prison (Nov. 1917), released after 4 months. One of the hands. underground anti-pain activist. organization “Union for the Revival of Russia” (1918). Top, commander-in-chief of all Russians. land and sea armed by Russian forces Temp. All-Russian government of the Ufa Directory (September 24, 1918 - November 18, 1918). In the beginning Oct. 1918 in Chel. joint with the command of the Czechoslovak Corps and the Third Ural Army Corps of the Whites, he was involved in the creation of Western headquarters departments. antipainist. front. Hoping for help from the Allied forces, he prepared Ch. blow to Perm. After Admiral A.V. Kolchak came to power, he did not recognize him as the Supreme Ruler and went to Japan (formally on November 21, 1918 he was sent abroad). In Jan. 1920 returned to Vladivostok, in March 1920 appointed chairman. commissions under the military. Council of the Primorsky region zemstvo council for the development of military and naval bills. Commands, land and sea. by the forces of D. Vostok (April 8—December 12, 1920). Member Military Council of Time, government of the D. East (since April 1920). Military manager and pestilence forces, pres. a special department for organizing work for demobilized military personnel (since May 1920). Military manager and pestilence affairs of the Time, government of the D. East (since July 1920). Pred. Ross. Russian-Japanese delegations agree, commission (June 1921 - June 1922). Member (from July 1921), comrade chairman. (since July 1921) Priamursky people. collection After Grayed. war remained in Vladivostok. Arrested and imprisoned (1922-23). Released after assurance of his desire to serve the Bolsheviks. Until the end 1928 worked in Sib. planning commission, then at the Society for the Study of Siberia and produces it, forces. Member editorial team Sib. owls encyclopedia, editor of the departments of cartography, geography, energy, zoning and communications. Arrested (February 23, 1933), accused of counter-revolution. conspiracy, shot.

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Boldyrev Vasily Egorovich

• Dates of life: 05.04.1875-20.08.1933

• Biography:

Orthodox. From the peasants of the Simbirsk province. A native of Syzran. He received his education at the Penza Land Surveying School. Entered service on 10/01/1893. Graduated from the Military Topographical School (1895). Released as a Second Lieutenant (09/23/1895) into the corps of military topographers. Lieutenant (art. 08/08/1898). Staff Captain (08/08/1901). Graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1903; 1st category). Captain (Art. 05/23/1903). The qualified command of the company was served in the 145th infantry. Novocherkassk Regiment (10/30/1903-06/19/1904). Participant in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Chief officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the 4th Army Corps (12/08/1904-10/28/1906). He was wounded during the assault on the Novgorod hill in Manchuria. Art. adjutant of the headquarters of the 18th Army Corps (10/28/1906-09/08/1907). Art. adjutant of the headquarters of the 20th Army Corps (09/08/1907-03/29/1909). Lieutenant Colonel (December 6, 1908). Staff officer for assignments at the headquarters of the 20th Army Corps (03/29/1909-01/08/1911). Staff officer, head of officers studying at the Nikolaev Military Academy (since 01/08/1911). Colonel (Art. 06.12.1911). In 1914 he defended his dissertation “Attacks of fortified positions”; from 1914 he became an extraordinary professor. At 08.1914 he went to the front as an acting commander. Chief of Staff of the 2nd Guards. infantry divisions. For the battles in 10.1914 near the Ivangorod fortress he was awarded the Arms of St. George (VP 01/31/1915), and for the battles near Jedwabno in 1914-15 - the Order of St. George, 4th class. (VP 05/29/1915). Commander of the 30th Poltava Infantry Regiment (from 03/08/1915). On 05/10/1915, 08/31/1915 in the same rank and position. Major General (08/31/1915; Art. 06/26/1915; for distinction in affairs...). General for assignments under the commander of the 4th Army (from 02/29/1916). Quarter General headquarters of the armies of the Northern Front (from 09/08/1916). Commander of the 43rd Army Corps (from 04/19/1917). Lieutenant General (born April 29, 1917). 09.09.1917 replaced by general. Yu.H. Danilov as commander of the 5th Army. After the October Revolution and the appointment of ensign N.V. Krylenko Supreme Commander-in-Chief, B. refused to obey him and was arrested on November 13, 1917. Soon, on charges of sabotage, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison. In 05.1918 he was released under an amnesty.

He was a member of the leadership of the Union for the Revival of Russia and the National Center. On 09/1918 he was elected a member of the Directory (Ufa) and on 09/24/1918 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces fighting against the Soviet Republic. After the coup A.V. Kolchak was exiled to Japan on November 18, 1918 (formally on November 21, 1918 he was sent abroad), where he actively supported the intervention. He returned to Vladivostok on 01/1920, where on 03/23/1920 he was appointed to the post of chairman of the commission under the military council of the Primorsky regional zemstvo government for the development of military and naval bills. Commander of the ground and naval forces of the Far East (04/08/12/12/1920). Member of the Military Council of the Provisional Government of the Far East (since 04/17/1920). Manager of the military and naval forces, chairman of the special committee for organizing work for demobilized military personnel (since 05/28/1920). Manager of military and naval affairs of the Provisional Government of the Far East (from 07/01/1920). Chairman of the Russian delegation to the Russian-Japanese Conciliation Commission (from 06/01/1921). Member (from 07/07/1921), fellow chairman (from 07/26/1921) of the Amur People's Assembly. After the capture of Vladivostok by the Red Army on November 5, 1922, he was arrested. In prison he declared his readiness to serve the Soviet regime. In the summer of 1923 he was released. Since 1926, military teacher. sciences, “natural production forces of Siberia and their executors” (Novosibirsk). He worked in Novosibirsk in the Siberian Planning Commission, chairman of the “Subsoil” section of the Society for the Study of Siberia.

12/29/1932 (according to other sources, 08/1933) was arrested on charges of organizing a counter-revolutionary conspiracy.

Essays:

Battle on the river Shahe. - St. Petersburg, 1905; Siege and capture of Riga by Russian troops in 1709-1710. - Riga, 1910; The car and its tactical use. Lectures given at the Academy of the General Staff. - St. Petersburg, 1912; Attack of a fortified position. Artillery actions. - St. Petersburg, 1912; Attack of fortified positions. Tactical research based on historical examples. - St. Petersburg, 1914; Coup of the Merkulov brothers / Siberia. - 1925. - No. 5-6. - pp. 23-25; Directory. Kolchak. Interventionists: Memoirs: (From the series “Six Years”, 1917-1922). - Novonikolaevsk, 1925; Japan and the Soviet Far East / Sib. lights. - 1925. - No. 1. - P. 187-194; Siberian region in numbers. - Novonikolaevsk, 1925 (co-authored with P.A. Gurinovich); Zoned Siberia. Brief cultural and economic sketch of the districts. - Novonikolaevsk, 1926; Energy resources of Oirotia. - Novosibirsk, 1932.

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White General Vasily Georgievich Boldyrev is a bright and interesting figure. An ardent fighter against the Bolsheviks, he suddenly changed his beliefs and remained in Red Russia instead of emigrating. And he even came up with a new biography for himself.

General, son of a blacksmith

Vasily Boldyrev was born in 1875 into the family of a blacksmith in Syzran. Until the age of 15 he worked in his father's forge. Then he entered the Penza Land Surveying School, and then the Military Topographical School in St. Petersburg. I made my way up on my own. At the age of 28 he graduated from the Academy of the General Staff with the first class, and in 1904 he fought with the Japanese as part of the headquarters of the 22nd Infantry Division. The soldier did not sit behind his back and was awarded a medal. In 1911 he returned to the Academy to teach. In 1914 he defended his dissertation on the topic “Attack of fortified positions” and became a professor.

First World War

With the outbreak of World War I, Boldyrev returned to the active army. He was appointed chief of staff of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division. He was awarded the Arms of St. George for the battles near Ivangorod, and the Order of St. George, IV degree, for the defense of Osovets. He received the rank of major general after the defeat of the Austrian corps near Krasniki. Later he became a general for assignments under the commander of the 4th Army, and from August 1916 - quartermaster general of the headquarters of the Northern Front.
The abdication of Nicholas II took place before Boldyrev's eyes. He then kept two telegrams from the emperor for a long time. The collapse of the army was obvious: the Russians surrendered Riga, losing 25,000 people killed and 15,000 captured.

Revolution

During the October coup, Lieutenant General Boldyrev commanded the 5th Army. He refused to follow the orders of the Bolsheviks and was arrested by the new "supreme commander in chief" ensign Krylenko. For disobeying orders, Boldyrev was sentenced to three years in prison and kept in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

He left prison on March 2, 1918, completely gray-haired. Perhaps Boldyrev’s release was influenced by his closeness to the Socialist Revolutionaries. He became one of the organizers of the “Union for the Revival of Russia,” which included cadets, moderate Socialist Revolutionaries, military men and intellectuals. He was a member of the “National Center”, which included representatives of the tsarist bureaucracy, industrialists and landowners. The general called Soviet power “a red nightmare that crushes and strangles the Motherland.”

In Siberia

Having grown a beard and dressed in a soldier's overcoat, in the fall of 1918 Boldyrev arrived in Ufa, where he became a member of the Provisional All-Russian Government (Directory) and was appointed commander-in-chief. He hoped for a revival of the army and introduced strict discipline. Under him, army men wore shoulder straps, not sleeve chevrons. Conflicts between military leaders were stopped. New military talents sparkled, such as Dutov, Kappel, Bangersky, Stark.

Soon Vice Admiral Alexander Kolchak arrived in Omsk. Boldyrev was the first to receive the admiral and offered him the post of Minister of War and Navy.

During the military coup, when members of the Directory were arrested and the Council of Ministers elected Kolchak as the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Boldyrev was in Ufa. If he had been in Omsk, history could have taken a different path, because some of the officers supported the general, and he had every chance of taking the place of ruler.

Boldyrev himself was outraged by the coup, considering the power of the Directory to be legitimate, and the coup as the liquidation of the anti-Bolshevik coalition.
He feared arrest; officers loyal to him were preparing to repel Kolchak’s men. But none of this happened. At a meeting with Kolchak, Boldyrev told the admiral: “You signed someone else’s bill, and a fake one at that, paying for it can ruin not only you, but also the business started in Siberia.”

In the East

After the coup, Boldyrev went to Japan, to Tokyo, where he remained until January 1920. There he studied the organization of military affairs, wrote the works “Brief Considerations on the Question of the Fight against Bolshevism in Russia” and “The Civil War and Its Consequences”, corresponded with Kolchak, convincing him to cooperate with the interventionists. It would seem that he will remain here. But that was not the case.

On January 16, 1920, Boldyrev arrived in Vladivostok. Two weeks after the next coup, he became commander-in-chief of the semi-Bolshevik Primorsky regional zemstvo government. He collaborated with the Bolshevik Sergei Lazo, headed the Commission for the disbandment of the army, and negotiated with the Kappelites. When the Japanese occupied Vladivostok, Boldyrev's troops laid down their arms, and the revolutionaries Lazo and Lutsky were shot. No one touched Boldyrev himself.

With the arrival of the Japanese, merchants Spiridon and Nikolai Merkulov took power into their own hands. The White Rebel Army appeared again, and Boldyrev became the chairman of the Russian-Japanese Conciliation Commission, a member of the presidium and a comrade of the Chairman of the People's Assembly.

Mysterious biography

On October 26, 1922, the Reds entered Vladivostok. Boldyrev, instead of leaving for Japan, stayed in the city and was arrested. After six months of imprisonment, he petitioned for pardon and even asked to serve. He composed a mysterious biography for himself, in which he indicated that in 1905 he allegedly participated in expeditions in the Yakut region, carried out revolutionary work, for which he was arrested and spent 8 months in prison. He talked about his participation in the expedition to the Shantar Islands in 1910, about the new arrest in Yakutsk and about the transfer to Petrograd.

What was that? Exposition of a preconceived legend? Or did the general simply want to avoid Kolchak’s fate? Or maybe there really is a lot of unknowns in Boldyrev’s biography? Mystery.

The general always wrote a lot of negative things about the Bolsheviks. It's hard to believe his reforging. The desire to stay in Russia could only be caused by the desire to continue the fight against Bolshevism. And the petition and false biography were supposed to lull the vigilance of the security officers. Most likely, the general was preparing to lead the future confrontation with the communists within the country.

The Bolsheviks released the general, and he received a job at the Siberian Planning Commission. Lived in Novosibirsk. He was in correspondence with a family who lived in Serbia. He was a witness in the case of Ataman Annenkov, who was kidnapped by security officers from China.

In 1930, Boldyrev was arrested again, and this time he was not released. On August 22, 1933, the general was shot “for counter-revolutionary activities.”