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Chernetsov's Partisans

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Colonel Chernetsov's Partisan Company
Don Cossacks flag
ActiveNovember 1917 - February 1918
CountryDon Republic
AllegianceDon Army, Volunteer Army
BranchCavalry
Nickname(s)Chernetsovtsy
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Vasily Chernetsov

Chernetsov's Partisans was an irregular military unit of the Don Army, commissioned under the act of ataman Alexey Kaledin on November 7, 1917, in the opening stages of Russian Civil War. The 600-man regiment-size unit was formed of Don Cossack officers and students of Novocherkassk.[1] However, many Bolsheviks considered Vasily Chernetsov and his men brutal counter-revolutionaries, who were not entitled to protection when captured, as was the case with other prisoners of war. Colonel Chernetsov's death at the hands of the Bolsheviks was explored in Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

After Chernetsov's death the surviving members joined the Volunteer Army's Ice March at the end of February 1918.

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  1. ^ Volkov S.V.: White movement in Russia: Organisation and structure. 2000 http://swolkov.ru/bdorg/bdorg20.htm#1329