He soon earned the rank of major general, and was ultimately placed in command of the Consolidated Cavalry Corp, an amalgamated unit of many different Cossack regiments. Wrangel continued to earn distinctions, particularly during the Brusilov Offensive of 1916. Wrangel as a cavalry officer of the Imperial Russian Army during the Weltkrieg.
It was here that Wrangel first met Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg and Grigory Semyonov, two already unstable men whose true colours would be revealed in the Civil War. George, he was promoted to colonel and transferred to once again command Transbaikal Cossacks. After distinguishing himself early on and earning the Order of St. Having studied at the Nicholas Imperial General Staff Academy in 1910 and the Cavalry Officers School in 1911, Wrangel began service in 1914 as a cavalry captain. Petersburg and married Olga Mikhaylovna Ivanenko, with whom he had two children. After the Revolution's end, Wrangel returned to St. Wrangel saw service in the 1905 Revolution in much the same way he'd see service in the second commanding a fast-moving, punitive expedition of cavalrymen. Wrangel distinguished himself as a lieutenant with the Cossacks, but was ultimately transferred to a Dragoon unit upon the war's end. Wrangel's first taste of combat would be against the Japanese in 1904. Shortly thereafter, he was transferred to Irktusk to command a unit of Transbaikal Cossacks, the first of many experiences with Russia's bellicose warrior caste.
Petersburg Institute of Mining Engineering, Wrangel would earn his first military commission in 1902, after volunteering for the Life Guards cavalry. A graduate first of the Rostov Technical High School, and later the St. Pyotr Wrangel was born on Augto a Baltic German noble family in what was then Russian Lithuania.
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