The march of the White Army's Drozdovsky Regiment

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In November 1918 the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. On 11 March 1918, Colonel Drozdovsky's assembled volunteer forces set out on their famous campaign from the Romanian city of Iasi to the Don. They marched about 1200 kilometers in 61 days. The Germans respectfully let the soldiers pass, their officers expressed their admiration for the determination to fight Bolshevism. The Red Army tried to stop their advance but each time the disciplined and persistent volunteers literally swept them out of their way. On the Easter night of 4 May 1918, after many battles they liberated Rostov. Major General Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky, veteran of the Great War and the Russo-Japanese war, a key person in the preparation of armed resistance to the Bolshevik dictatorship, a man of honor and unbending will, was wounded in a heavy battle near the walls of the St. John Martin Monastery on 13 November 1918. He returned to duty, and died in the Rostov hospital in 1919.

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