Novel Fedorovitch von Ungern-Sternberg

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Romance Fedorovitch von Ungern-Sternberg (in Cyrillic РоманФёдоровичУнгернфонШтернберг), born the January 22nd 1886, Graz (Austria) and dead the September 15th 1921, called also Romance Ungern von Sternberg and Surnommé the “Baron insane” or the “bloody Baron”, fought in the white armies during the Russian Civil war, before fighting for its own account with an aim of creating an empire in the east of the Lac Baïkal. It is high in Estonia by his father-in-law Oscar von Hoyningen-Huene. Graduate of the Military academy Pavlovsk, to Saint-Pétersbourg, it is sent in a military unit in Siberia, where it is filled with enthusiasm for the lifestyle of wandering people like the Mongols and the Buriat ones. During the First World War, it fights in Galicie and acquires a reputation of bravery, but also of unconcern and psychic instability. In its Memories , the general Vrangel known as to have hesitated to promote it with the higher rank. At the time of the events of 1917, he is general tsarist.

He is sent in Siberia in February 1917 near Grigory Mikhaïlovitch Semenov to establish a loyal supporter presence there. After the revolution that the Bolchevik S in October start, Semenov and Ungern enter in war against them. In the first months, Ungern von Sternberg is pointed out by its cruelty with regard to the local population and of her subordinates, and gains the nickname of “bloody Baron”. Some also call it “the insane Baron” because of his eccentric behavior. He and Semenov, even if they fight the Bolsheviks, do not belong to the white armies and refuse to obey the admiral Koltchak, supreme leader of the White. They obtain on the other hand the support of Japan, which plans to create a State marionette in the Russian Far East, under the authority of Semenov. For the chiefs of the white armies, which believe in indivisible Russia, it is there a crime of high treason. The army of Ungern von Sternberg was made up of Russian troops, of Cosaques, Buriat which as well badgered the trains with supply of the White as those of the Reds. Because of the presence of Koltchak in central Siberia, Semenov and Ungern fought more in the east, in Transbaïkalie, and their attacks on the trains of supply obstructed considerably the operations of Koltchak in the the Ural.

In 1920, it separates from Semenov and becomes independent war leader. He regards monarchy as the only shape of government likely to save the Western civilization of corruption and the self-destruction. He already plans to restore the Qing dynasty on the throne of China, then to link the nations of the Far East under the Chinese yoke. Fanatic anti-semite, it proclaims in a proclamation, in 1918, his intention “to exterminate all the Jews and the Police chiefs of Russia” and to give on the throne of Russia the large-duke Mikhaïl, younger brother of Nicolas II.

In October 1920, moving back in front of the advance Bolshevik, it passes in autonomous Mongolia, with a force made up of Russian and alien “white guards” (Tatar S, Bachkirs, Buriat S and Mongolian S). Being seized the capital Ourga (currently Ulan-Bator), it imposes February in July 1921, the portion of Mongolia which is subjected to him, a mode of terror which was worth the nickname of “bloody Baron to him”. Its sanguinary madness quickly alienates the sympathy of the Mongols to him, who had initially believed to discover in him the saver intended to release them from the Chinese. It is expelled by a joint offensive of the Red Army and Mongolian popular Army and is carried out in September 1921 with Novonikolaevsk (currently Novossibirsk). The last Russian forces “white” in Mongolia are decimated in December of the same year.

According to the XIII {{E}} Dalai Lama, Ungern von Sternberg was the reincarnation of a Mahakala (divinity of Buddhism).

Popular culture

Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg appears in the cartoon of Hugo Pratt Corto Maltese in Siberia which belongs to the series Corto Maltese . It is one of the characters of: De Goulane, Robert: lords of dead the , Editions of the Roundtable, 2006,

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