history · 07 February 1920 · 104 years ago
Vice-Admiral Aleksandr Vasilevitch Kolchak, one-time Supreme Ruler of Russia, was taken from his cell to a place on the bank of the Angara River in Siberia, and there with Victor Pepelyaev, was shot by an execution squad and his body pushed through a hole in the ice. Representatives of the Czech Legion signed an agreement with Smirnov guaranteeing the evacuation of all Czech personnel and their equipment from Russian soil, in return for their non-intervention of the Bolshevik treatment of Kolchak and his staff.
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