EXTREMELLY RARE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR WEST ARMY GUNNERS OVERCOAT, BERMON AVALOV 1918--1919
Russian Civil War 1918-1919 West Army Bermon Avalov machine gunners sergeant overcoat.
Heavy thick wool. Extremely rare and hard to find.
CONDITION: Well worn but still great condition for its age. The item is described to the best of our knowledge. Please refer to pictures and email with any questions.
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WIKIPEDIA: Pavel Rafalovich Bermon(d)t-Avalov was an Ussuri Cossack and warlord. He is best known as the commander of the West Russian Volunteer Army which was active in present-day Latvia and Lithuania in the aftermath of World War I. He was appointed to lead the German-established Western Russian army (subsequently frequently known after his name as 'the Bermontians') which was meant to go to fight the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, but, believing that communists would be defeated without his help, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov decided to strike against the newly independent nations of Lithuania and Latvia instead. His "Special Russians Corps" supposedly numbered about 50,000 men. He was one of the few anti-communist generals who openly promoted monarchist ideals. Bermondt-Avalov was promoted Major General in 1918. He took over the White Forces in the Baltic from Prince Anatoly Lieven, who commanded a contingent in the Baltische Landwehr. In 1919, his forces joined those of Major General Rudiger von der Goltz to form the so-called "West Russian Volunteer Army" which attempted to proclaim the "Western Central Government" in Riga. German Free Corps were operating in the Baltic States since spring 1919 to keep away the Red Army. In summer 1919 the Entente States and the German government ordered the troops back, but the soldiers refused. Until beginning of October most of the 40,000 German volunteers entered the Bermondt-Army consisting of about 10,000 Russians, mostly former prisoners of war released from German camps. With this masquerade[citation needed] the Germans tried to keep their engagement in the Baltics and to secure German interests in the area. They used Bermondt for their own purposes. Since the German government stopped paying for the troops, finances were coming mostly from German economic leaders that had interests in the Baltics. At the end the Army printed its own money.

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