Anton Ivanovich Denikin was a Russian military leader who served as the acting supreme ruler of the Russian State and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923. Previously, he was a general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I.
A temporary takeover of the Tsaritsyn (present-day Volgograd) by Denikin's troops in July 1919
In the summer of 1919 Denikin's troops captured Kharkov
White Russian anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster, c. 1919. Senior Bolsheviks (Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Lenin, Trotsky, Kamenev, and Radek) sacrifice an allegorical character representing Russia to a statue of Karl Marx.
Denikin's coffin in St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, New York.
The Supreme Ruler of Russia, also referred to as the Supreme Leader of Russia, was the head of state and supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian State, an anti-Bolshevik government established by the White Movement during the Russian Civil War. For nearly two years from November 1918 until April 1920, the armies of the White Movement were nominally united under the administration of the Russian State, during which the Russian State claimed to be the sole legal government of Russia. The office's sole holder for most of its existence, and the only one to officially adopt the titles and functions of the Supreme Ruler, was Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who was elected to the position by the All-Russian Council of Ministers following the November 18 coup which overthrew the Directory.
Supreme Ruler of Russia
