Vasily Chernetsov

White Russian partisan commander

World War I
- Eastern Front
Russian Civil War

AwardsOrder of St. Anna of 4th degree for bravery
Order of St. Anna of 3rd degree
Order of Saint Stanislaus of 3rd degree
Order of Saint Stanislaus of 2nd degree
Order of St. Vladimir of 4th degree
* Golden St. George weapons "For bravery"

Vasily Mikhailovich Chernetsov (Russian: Василий Михайлович Чернецов; March 3, 1890 – January 23, 1918) was a Don Cossack Russian Imperial Army officer who served as a colonel in the Don Army during the Russian Civil War. He led Chernetsov's Partisans, an independent irregular military unit commissioned by ataman Alexey Kaledin on November 7, 1917.

Awards

Literature

The deaths of Colonel Chernetsov and his partisans at the hands of the Bolsheviks are part of the plot of the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don.