Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin was a French general and military commander who was the chief of the Allied military mission in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. He is known for his betrayal of the Russian Supreme Leader Alexander Kolchak by giving him to the soviet revolutionary committee to be executed in Irkutsk.
Military postcard of the Czechoslovak Legion with Maurice Janin
Maurice Janin with his staff in Siberia (taken between 1918 and 1920).
Grand Quartier Général (1914–1919)
The Grand Quartier Général was the general headquarters of the French Army during the First World War. It served as the wartime equivalent of the Conseil supérieur de la guerre and had extensive powers within an area defined by the French parliament. The GQG was activated by parliament on 2 August 1914, after the violation of French borders by German military patrols, and remained in existence until 20 October 1919.
Minister for War Alexandre Millerand arriving at the Chantilly Grand Quartier Général building in February 1915
General Joffre chief of staff from 1911 and head of the GQG from 1914 to 1916
A French poster declaring general mobilisation, published 2 August 1914
A contemporary depiction of Joffre and his staff at the Châtillon-sur-Seine GQG on the night of 6 September 1914, during the First Battle of the Marne
