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Wrangel mentions Ungern's determination in his memoirs. After his release from prison in January , Ungern was transferred to the Caucasian theatre of the conflict, where Russia was fighting against the Ottoman Empire. Grigory Semyonov , later one of most well-known Russian anti-communist warlords in Siberia.

In April near Urmia , Iran , Ungern, together with Semyonov, started to organize a volunteer military unit composed of local Assyrian Christians. The Ottoman government had waged the Assyrian Genocide , attempting to exterminate the Assyrian minority, which led to thousands of Assyrians fleeing to the Russian lines. The Kerensky government gave its approval to Semyonov's plans, and Ungern-Sternberg soon headed east to join his friend in trying to raise a Buryat regiment.

After the Bolshevik -led October Revolution of , Semyonov and Ungern declared their allegiance to the Romanovs and vowed to fight the revolutionaries. For a time the station in Manchuria was a stronghold of Semyonov and Ungern in their preparations for war in Transbaikal. They started to enroll troops in a Special Manchurian Regiment, which became a nucleus for anti-communist forces led by Semyonov. After the White troops defeated the Reds on a section of the FER line in Russia, Semyonov appointed Ungern commandant of troops stationed in Dauria , a railway station in a strategic position east-southeast of Lake Baikal.

Semyonov and Ungern, though fervently anti-Bolshevik, were not typical of the figures to be found in the leadership of the White movement , as their plans differed from those of the main White leaders. Semyonov refused to recognize the authority of Adm. Aleksandr Kolchak , the nominal leader of the Whites in Siberia. Instead, he acted independently, supported by the Japanese with arms and money. For White leaders like Kolchak and Denikin , who believed in a "Russia strong and indivisible", this represented high treason.

Ungern was nominally subordinated to Semyonov but he, too, often acted independently. Kolchak was a conservative but not a monarchist, who promised that after the victory of the Whites he would reconvene the Constituent Assembly disbanded by the Bolsheviks in January , which would then decide the future of Russia, including the question of whether or not to restore the monarchy. For Ungern, the opinions of the people of Russia were irrelevant, as monarchs were not accountable to the people. Because of his successful military operations in Hailar and Dauria, Ungern received the rank of Major-General.

Semyonov entrusted him with forming military units to battle Bolshevik forces. They enrolled Buryats and Mongols in their national military units. Under his rule, Dauria became a well-known "torture center" filled with the bones of dozens of Ungern's victims, people who were executed because of accusations of being Reds or thieves details in [38]. Ungern's chief executioner had been a Col.

Laurentz, but later, in Mongolia, Ungern had him executed because he lost Ungern's trust, although under unclear circumstances. They examined trains passing through Dauria to Manchuria. While these confiscations did not significantly diminish the supplies of Kolchak's forces, private Russian and Chinese merchants lost considerable property. In , taking advantage of the weakness of Russia's government caused by revolutions and civil war, the Chinese government, established by members of the Anhui military party , sent troops led by Gen. Xu Shuzheng to join Outer Mongolia to China and end its autonomy.

This violated the terms of a tripartite Russian-Mongolian-Chinese agreement concluded in , which secured the autonomy of Outer Mongolia and did not allow the presence of Chinese troops, except for small numbers of consular guards. They rebelled against their commanders and plundered and killed Mongols and foreigners.

There he established contacts with monarchist circles and also made preparations for Semyonov to meet with Manchurian warlord Marshal Zhang Zuolin , the "Old Marshal". The princess was given the name Elena Pavlovna. She and Ungern communicated in English , their only common language.

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Zhang Kuiwu, commander of Chinese troops at the western end of the Chinese-Manchurian Railway , and governor of Hailar. After Kolchak 's defeat at the hands of the Red Army and the subsequent decision of Japan to withdraw its expeditionary troops from the Transbaikal , Semyonov, unable to withstand the pressure of Bolshevik forces, planned a retreat to Manchuria.

Ungern, however, saw this as an opportunity to implement his monarchistic plan. On 7 August he broke his allegiance to Semyonov and transformed his Asiatic Cavalry Division into a guerrilla detachment. They crossed the northern border of Outer Mongolia on 1 October and moved southwest. He entered into negotiations with Chinese occupying forces. All of his demands, including disarmament of the Chinese troops, were rejected.

On 26—27 October and again on 2—4 November , Ungern's troops assaulted Urga, but suffered disastrous losses.

After the defeat his forces retreated to the upper currents of the Kherlen River , in Setsen-Khan Aimag district ruled by princes with the title Setsen Khan , in eastern Outer Mongolia. He was supported by Mongols who sought independence from Chinese occupation, especially the spiritual and secular leader of Mongols, the Bogd Khan , who secretly sent Ungern his blessing for expelling Chinese from Mongolia.

The Chinese had tightened their control of Outer Mongolia by this time, strictly regulating Buddhist services in monasteries and imprisoning Russians and Mongols whom they considered "separatists". According to memoirs by M. Tornovsky, the Asiatic Division numbered 1, men, while the Chinese garrison was strong. The Chinese had the advantage in artillery and machine guns and had built a network of trenches in and around Urga.

Ungern's troops began moving from their camp to Urga on 31 January. On 2 February they battled for control of Chinese front lines and secured parts of Urga. Rezukhin, captured Chinese front-line fortifications near Small Madachan and Big Madachan settlements in the southeastern vicinities of Urga. At the same time another detachment moved to the mountains east of Urga. Borrowing a tactic from Genghis Khan , he ordered his troops to light a large number of campfires in the hills surrounding Urga, using them as reference points for Rezukhin's detachment.

This made the town appear to be surrounded by an overwhelming force. Then he divided his forces in two parts. The first launched a major assault on the remaining Chinese positions in the Chinese trade settlement Chinese: The second moved westwards towards the part of Urga called Consular Settlement. Upon reaching the Maimaicheng, Ungern had his men smash their way in by blasting the gates with explosives and improvised battering rams. After the capture of Maimacheng, Ungern joined his troops attacking Chinese troops at the Consular Settlement. After a Chinese counterattack, Ungern's soldiers retreated a short distance northeast and then launched another attack with the support of another Cossack and Mongolian detachment, which began an attack from the northeast and northwest.

Ungern's troops gradually moved westwards in Urga, pursuing retreating Chinese soldiers. The capital city was finally taken on the evening of 4 February. Chinese civilian administrators and military commanders abandoned their soldiers and fled northwards from Urga on 11 cars on the night of 3—4 February.

Chinese troops fled northward on 4 and 5 February. They massacred any Mongolian civilians they encountered along the road from Urga to the Russian border. Russian settlers who supported the Reds moved from Urga together with the fleeing Chinese troops. During the capture of Urga the Chinese lost about men, while Ungern's forces suffered about 60 casualties. After the battle, Ungern's troops began plundering Chinese stores and killing Russian Jews who were living in Urga, as the Cossacks had also been set against the Jews.

Ungern himself ordered the Jews to be killed, except for those who had notes from him sparing their lives. Several days later the looting by his troops was stopped by Ungern, but his secret-police bureau led by Col. Leonid Sipailo continued searching for "Reds". Ungern had troops and the Chinese defenders about After capturing Choir Ungern himself returned to Urga. When the remaining Chinese troops, having retreated to northern Mongolia near Kyakhta , attempted to round Urga to the west in order to reach China, the Russians and Mongols feared they were attempting to re-capture Urga.

Several hundred Cossack and Mongol troops were dispatched to stop the Chinese forces, which numbered several thousand, in the area of Talyn Ulaankhad Hill near the Urga—Uliastai road in central Mongolia. After a battle that raged from 30 March to 2 April, in which more than Chinese and approximately Mongols, Russians and Buryats were killed, the Chinese were routed and chased to the southern border of the country.

Thus Chinese forces left Outer Mongolia. On 22 February a solemn ceremony took place, restoring the Bogd Khan to the throne.

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Other officers, lamas and princes who had participated in these events also received high titles and awards. On 22 February , Mongolia was proclaimed an independent monarchy. Ossendowski, one of the most popular Polish writers in his lifetime at the time of his death in , his overseas sales were the second-highest of all the writers of Poland , had served as an official in Adm. Kolchak's government and after its collapse, fled to Mongolia.

Ungern did not interfere in Mongolian affairs and only assisted Mongols with some issues according to orders of the Bogd Khan. Russian colonists, on the other hand, suffered cruelties from Ungern's secret-police bureau led by Leonid Sipailo. Many innocent people were tortured and killed by Sipailo and his subordinates.

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