Maurice Janin

Maurice Janin
Military postcard of the Czechoslovak Legion with Maurice Janin
Birth namePierre Thiébaut Charles Maurice Janin
Nickname(s)The general without honour
Born(1862-10-19)19 October 1862
7th arrondissement of Paris, France
Died28 April 1946(1946-04-28) (aged 83)
Saint-Sébastien, Isère, France
Allegiance France
Service / branch French Army
RankDivisional general
Battles / warsFirst World War
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
AwardsOrder of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class
Alma materÉcole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (19 October 1862 – 28 April 1946) was a French general (from April 20, 1916) 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.


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