born Dec. 16, 1872, near Warsaw, Pol., Russian Empire
died Aug. 8, 1947, Ann Arbor, Mich., U.S.
Russian general.
A professional in the imperial Russian army, he was a lieutenant-general in World War I. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he and Russian Civil War . In 1919 Denikin launched a major offensive toward Moscow, but his forces were defeated by the Red Army at Orel. Forced to retreat, he turned over his command to {{link=Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron">Pyotr Wrangel (1920), then fled Russia and later settled in France.