1878 Peter Wrangel was born

140 years ago, on August 27, 1878, Baron Pyotr Wrangel was born, Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army at the final stage of the white movement in southern Russia in 1920. He was the only one of the prominent leaders of the whites who tried to implement some kind of political program to attract the sympathy of the population, including carrying out an agrarian reform with the allocation of land to the peasants in the Crimea and Northern Tavria, controlled by his troops.