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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak, Arctic explorer and naval officer, who was recognized in 1919–20 by the “Whites” as supreme ruler of Russia; after his overthrow he was put to death by the Bolsheviks. At the outbreak of World War I, Kolchak was flag captain of the Baltic fleet.

Alexander Kolchak was a commander in the Russian Imperial Navy during World War One and a Polar explorer. He is best known, however, as one of the leaders of the White anti-Bolshevik movement in...

Alexander Kolchak (1874-1920) served as an admiral in the Imperial Navy. He became an important White army commander during the Russian Civil War, declaring himself supreme commander of all non-Bolshevik Russia in November 1918.

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak was shot on February 7, 1920. He, thus, remained the first and only Supreme Ruler of Russia in history. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full...

Legendary Russian Admiral Alexander Kolchak did not allow Allied interventionists to take Russia’s gold reserves out of the country. He was, in the end, betrayed by French General Maurice Janin...