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  1. Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov ( Russian: Пётр Николаевич Краснов; 22 September [ O.S. 10 September] 1869 – 17 January 1947), also known as Peter Krasnov, was a Russian military leader, writer and later Nazi collaborator . Krasnov served as a lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and later led ...

  2. Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (born Sept. 10 [Sept. 22, New Style], 1869, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Jan. 17, 1947, U.S.S.R.) was an imperial Russian army officer and a commander of anti-Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War. During World War II he helped organize anti-Soviet Cossack units for the Germans and urged the creation of a ...

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  3. A Cossack ataman who fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War and collaborated with the Nazis in World War II. He was executed by the Soviet authorities in 1947 for treason.

  4. From May to July 1918, the Don Cossacks under the command of Pyotr Krasnov were able to mobilize 40,000 men, equal in size but better trained than the Red troops present in the region. By the end of July, the Cossacks had cut the railway line towards Tsaritsyn and the Volunteer Army had seized a number of towns en route to the city, completely ...

    • July 1918-January 1920(1 year and 6 months)
  5. Mar 29, 2014 · In 1918, General Pyotr Krasnov, who came from a generations-old Cossack family, became the Ataman, or commander, of the Don Cossack Host, a formidable independent Cossack army fighting on the side ...

  6. Mar 31, 2014 · In 1918, General Pyotr Krasnov, who came from a generations-old Cossack family, became the Ataman, or commander, of the Don Cossack Host, a formidable independent Cossack army fighting on the side ...

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  8. Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov ( Russian: Пётр Николаевич Краснов; 22 September [ O.S. 10 September] 1869 – 17 January 1947), also known as Peter Krasnov, was a Russian military leader, writer and later Nazi collaborator.

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