Editing Lavr Kornilov (section)

==Russian Civil War==
[[File:Kornilostsy standard bearer.jpg|thumb|left|130px|Kornilov Shock Detachment flag bearer, 1917]]
[[File:Знак Корниловского полка.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Insignia of the Kornilov Shock Regiment]]
After the coup collapsed as his troops disintegrated, Kornilov and his fellow conspirators were placed under arrest in the [[Bykhaw|Bykhov]] jail. On 19 November, a few weeks after the proclamation of Soviet power in Petrograd, they escaped from their confinement (eased by the fact that the jail was guarded by Kornilov's supporters) and made their way to the [[Don River, Russia|Don]] region, which was controlled by the [[Don Cossacks]]. Here they linked up with General [[Mikhail Alekseev]]. Kornilov became the military commander of the anti-Bolshevik [[Volunteer Army]] with Alekseev as the political chief.<ref>[[Evan Mawdsley]] (2008) ''The Russian Civil War'': 27</ref>

The Kornilov Shock Detachment of the [[8th Army (Russian Empire)|8th Army]] was the most famous and longest-lived volunteer unit in the Russian Imperial Army. It was also the last regiment of the Russian Imperial Army and the first of the Volunteer Army.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstwar.info/articles/index.shtml?5|title=Ударные части в русской армии. Article from the magazine "The New Watchman" 1994 No. 2. P. 130-140|work=The First World War|access-date=8 July 2018|archive-date=13 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813164153/http://www.firstwar.info/articles/index.shtml?5|url-status=live}}</ref> In late 1917, the [[Kornilov Shock Regiment]], one of the crack units of the [[Volunteer Army]], was named after him, as well as many other autonomous White Army formations, such as the [[Kuban Cossack]] Kornilov Horse Regiment. Kornilov's forces became recognizable for their [[Totenkopf]] insignia, which appeared on the regiment's flags, pennants, and soldiers' sleeve patches.

Even before the Red Army was formed, Lavr Kornilov promised, "the greater the terror, the greater our victories."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Цветков В. Ж. Лавр Георгиевич Корнилов. Часть 1. |url=http://www.dk1868.ru/statii/kornilov1.htm |access-date=2022-06-26 |website=www.dk1868.ru |archive-date=2015-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923215634/http://www.dk1868.ru/statii/kornilov1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> He vowed that the goals of his forces must be fulfilled even if it was needed "to set fire to half the country and shed the blood of three-quarters of all Russians."<ref>{{cite book |last=Mayer |first=Arno J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gveBKGhmskAC&q=Greater+terror+greater+our+victories+Kornilov&pg=PA254|title=The Furies|page=254|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2000|isbn=0-691-09015-7}}</ref> In the Don region village of Lezhanka alone, bands of Kornilov's officers killed more than 500 people.<ref>{{cite book |last=Serge |first=Victor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XuFoAAAAMAAJ&q=Victor+Serge+Year+One+Revolution+Troitsk|title=Serge, Year One of the Russian Revolution|date=1 January 1972|place=Soviet Union|publisher=Holt, Rinehart, and Winston|page=299|isbn=0-713-90135-7}}</ref> On the other hand, Kornilov's adjutant recalled that the general "loved only the [Russia] itself" and served it for all his life, having no time to think about political systems. The Bolsheviks for him were dangerous traitors, who ruined Russia's unity and had to be stopped.<ref name=":0" />

On 24 February 1918, as [[Rostov-on-Don|Rostov]] and the Don Cossack capital of [[Novocherkassk]] fell to the Bolsheviks, Kornilov led the Volunteer Army on the epic '[[Ice March]]' into the empty steppe towards the [[Kuban]]. Although badly outnumbered, he escaped destruction from the pursuing Bolshevik forces and laid siege to [[Ekaterinodar]],  the capital of the [[Kuban Soviet Republic]], on 10 April. However, in the early morning of 13 April, a Soviet shell landed on his farmhouse headquarters and killed him. He was quietly buried in nearby Gnadau (modern day [[Dolinovskoe]]).<ref>{{Cite web|title=КОРНИЛОВ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия|url=https://bigenc.ru/military_science/text/2098571|access-date=2021-11-17|website=bigenc.ru|archive-date=2022-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322063507/https://bigenc.ru/military_science/text/2098571|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Kornilov's grave. Denikin and others. 1919.png|thumb|Kornilov's grave, prior to its desecration by the Bolsheviks.]]
A few days later, when the Bolsheviks gained control of the village, they [[exhume|unearthed]] Kornilov's coffin, dragged his corpse to the main square and [[posthumous execution|burnt his remains]] on the local rubbish dump.<ref>Evan Mawdsley (2008) ''The Russian Civil War'': 29.</ref>