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616: 20: 272:. On January 22, 1920, by decree of Nikolai Yudenich, the Northwestern Army ceased to exist, the Army's funds were distributed as the final salary and its remaining property was requisitioned by the government. In total around 17 thousand died after internment, and survivors were mostly denied to permanently stay in Estonia and fled further to Central and Western Europe. Yudenich went into exile in France, where he died near Nice on October 5, 1933. 64: 148:, approached Luga, Ropcha and Gatchina, threatening Petrograd. But the Bolsheviks mobilized their reserves and aligned 40,000 men against the Northwestern Army supported by two Estonian divisions. On August 1, the Bolsheviks launched a counter-attack and drove back the Estonian troops, who were reluctant to fight outside their country. On August 5, Yamburg fell and Pskov was recaptured by the Reds on August 28. 267:
county had been improved and the food was provided to them at the expense of American charity organizations. For the needs of medical treatment eleven Russian hospitals all across Estonia were established by the Estonian Army using the facilities of the Northwestern Army, and six more by the Estonian
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death toll in Narva is estimated at 4000. Some time thereafter trains were allowed to pass to Estonia proper, where 15,000 soldiers and officers of the Northwestern Army were disarmed, and 5,000 of them were interned in camps, partly on the open air. Around the same number of the former soldiers were
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Once the retreating North-Western Army, the Red prisoners of war and the refugees fleeing the Reds in total of about 40-50 thousand approached Narva, Estonians first refused to allow the train to pass through the bridge over Narova river motivating it with a fear of the typhoid epidemic that hit the
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away from the designated working places were subject to deportation to Soviet Russia. The former anti-Bolshevik allies, demobilized Russian soldiers and officers, were deemed as a "20-thousands large gang" that somehow had to be disposed of. For example, it was also suggested to divert the soldiers
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with the tacit consent of the Estonian authorities, before being released after the intervention of the commander of the English squadron anchored at Tallinn. This misconduct was addressed, yet to no avail, in a letter of protest from the former member of the Russian Provisional government,
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under supervision employed in logging in the nearby forests, shale mines and in agricultural field works, as the government of Estonia claimed it could not feed such number of people for free. Those who were caught more than 2
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army. Its personnel was ordered to stay in cold carriages in Ivangorod (then Eastern part of Narva) on a narrow landstrip between the river and the newly-agreed Russian-Estonian border. An eyewitness of these events, writer
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from November 2, 1919 and retreated fighting into Estonia in the Narva region East of Narova river. The last and unsuccessful attempt of the Reds to capture Narva from the Whites was undertaken on 17 December 1919.
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The White administration of the newly conquered territories was disastrous, as Rodzianko's subordinates unleashed a wave of terror against suspected Bolsheviks and against the Jewish population in general.
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and advanced units engaged the enemy in skirmishes as far as the Ijorski factories. But the lack of forces and means, Estonia's lack of support, the disobedience of
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On October 12, 1919, the Northwestern Army, some 18,500 men strong against 25,000 on the Red side, forced the frontline at Yamburg and seized on October 16
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During April–December 1919 the Soviet Russian government and their Estonian counterpart were involved in the peace talks that ended with 1920
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river where it was shot by the Reds. General Yudenich accused of an attempt to escape with the Army's funds was arrested by men of
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gen. Gough who promised to arrange for Estonian and British military assistance in advance on Petrograd,
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had to retreat abruptly into Estonia at the end of November 1918. The Estonian Government, faced with a
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fell into the hands of the White troops, who were now at the gates of Petrograd. They captured the
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reported on 30 November 1919, the living conditions of about 4000 refugees then residing in
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The origin of the Northwest Army was the plan to create an army by a group of reactionary
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formed a Government of Northwestern Region of Russia encompassing Petrograd,
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The allied intervention in Russia, 1918-1920 : the diplomacy of chaos
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and Pskov governorates that officially recognised Estonian independence.
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The military supplies promised by the Germans didn't materialize and the
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Military units and formations of White Russia (Russian Civil War)
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officers in the summer of 1918, in the territory controlled by
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Gen. Yudenich of North-Western Army and the staff members
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Index


White
Pskov Governorate
Saint Petersburg Governorate
Estonia
Latvia
Russian Civil War

Petrograd
Germany
Bolsheviks
Pskov
Bolshevik advance
Russian White Movement
British
Nikolai N. Yudenich
Novgorod
Finnish
Mannerheim
Pskov
Yamburg
Battle of Petrograd
Luga
Gatchina
Tsarskoye Selo
Pulkovo Heights
Ligovo
Pavel Bermondt-Avalov
West Russian Volunteer Army
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