'Supreme Ruler of Russia': Rise of Admiral Kolchak
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November 1918. In western Europe, the four-year slaughter of World War One was drawing to an end.But across the former Russian Empire, a new conflict had broken out… a civil war that raged from central Europe to the Pacific, claiming an estimated nine million lives. Lenin, the Bolsheviks and their new Soviet Republic battled for survival against their many enemies - collectively known as the ‘Whites’.
The Whites’ great hope: their newly-appointed ‘Supreme Ruler of Russia’, Admiral Alexander Kolchak. Kolchak was a war hero, a man of duty and discipline, who believed above all in service to ‘the motherland’. Millions looked to him to crush the Bolsheviks, avenge the murdered Tsar, and save Russia from chaos and collapse.
This is the extraordinary tale of the life and death of Admiral Kolchak - Russia’s only ‘Supreme Ruler’.
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Some Russian sources consulted for this video:
Admiral Kolchak, the supreme ruler of Russia, Zyryanov P. N.
Admiral Kolchak Dictator at will, Cherkashin N. A.
Alexander Kolchak: Military-theoretical works, Kolchak A. V.
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak: Researcher, Admiral, Supreme Ruler of Russia, Ivan Plotnikov
The Rise and Fall of Admiral Kolchak, Anatoly Vasilyevich Smolin
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We hope you enjoy the first episode of our two-part series on Admiral Kolchak. Don’t forget, if you want to watch all our videos first, and ad-free, come and join us at Nebula, with 40% off an annual subscription using our link: go.nebula.tv/EpicHistoryTV. And of course a huge thank you to all our Patreon supporters. Get exclusive production updates, votes on future topics, as well as ad-free, early access to all our new videos by signing up here: www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV. What did you learn about Kolchak? And what are you looking forward to in part two? Let us know in the comments! One small correction - in June 1916, Kolchak was promoted to Vice-Admiral, not full Admiral, as implied in the video. He was only promoted to full Admiral in November 1918, after he became Supreme Ruler of Russia.
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Loved it
Kolchak promoted himself to Full Admiral in 1918!
Please make more docs
Great document. Please make one change, Štefánik was Slovak general, not Czech. He was even writting the name Czecho-Slovakia separately, always to highlight Slovakia. Thank you
Epic History TV once again putting out content that surpasses even TV productions in information, entertainment and quality.
Very true it has been the standard of this channel which is unprecedented imo. Not many KZhead channels achieve this
Really tho
Facts
I couldn't agree more. Their content and productions are simply awesome
The channel is marvelous, not arguing that, but I wanna add that nowadays compared to TV watching a leaf being blown by the wind is great content (at least it's not disrespecting us with lies or carefully prepared omissions)
I want desperately to look up this guy’s Wikipedia but I won’t let myself out of fear of spoiling part 2.
Lmao I ALWAYS do that and end up disappointing myself 😂 I’m glad I’m not the only one
OMG same
lmao imagine saying spoiler when its history older than 100 years,just look at the wiki,you will still enjoy the video. Kolchak was romanian and he is dead btw.
You better check the Wikipedia, the guy was mentally unstable and committed a bunch of crimes.
Also keep in mind that page is poisoned my Marxist whitewashing.
We need more Russian imperial history in this channel. The doc about the decembrist revolt was superb, but there's so much more to talk.
Actually we need less of Russian history. It seems like the only two topics in this channel is Napoleon and Russia. Why not something to do with Germany or the Ottoman Empire for example? There’s so much potential topics out there haven’t haven’t even been covered
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Less Russian history the better.@@MH-jg6vk
@@MH-jg6vkI always want more Napoleon, but I would love some videos on the American war of independence and the US Civil War.
Two of my grandfathers served Kolchak, they were the Voronov's brothers. For this, their sister (12 y. high school student) and mother were sent to a concentration camp by the Bolsheviks. Kazakh shepherds helped them survive, the fate of the brothers is unknown.
Dang, thanks for sharing.
How yo uncle count as your grandfather
@@Mythoatissodryever heard of Grand Uncles? Cause in many languages we don't have a word for it. I call my Grand uncles and even great Grand uncles Grandfather in my native tongue. Heck, I sometimes call them Uncle due to a lack of available terms despite living in a Collectivist culture. Quite the irony there aight?
@@Mythoatissodry they wre brothers. my grandmother.
-Grandfather, did bolsheviks send you to Kazakh land? - yes, and then they executed me…
21:36 “Mr Kolchak there has been a second revolution”
I am honestly amazed you recognized general Gajda and mentioned him. It is not so well known story about him. This channel is really something of a quality so high, it has hardly any equals! :)
Unless I'm mistaken, this channel has another Russian version of it. It wouldn't surprise me if the reason they are so good about deep Russian history is because people working for the channel are Russian. Love it!
Nakedowl just to remind Gajda was a czechoslovak :)
@@jirin8080furthermore, he was leading a force 10.000 (if i'm not mistaken) Tsjechs during the civil war!
Great work
Another officer among the Czechs had an eye patch - that was Jan Syrový, in 1938 the prime minister of Czechoslovakia.
Caesar, Napoleon and Kolchak meet. Caesar - now I'm a salad, Napoleon - I'm a cake, Kolchak - I'm a restaurant in Omsk...
in street named after yugoslav communist
But also an island in the Arctic.
There is no comparison between Napoleon, Caesar and Kolchak. Kolchak is basically a nobody who achieved nothing aside from his polar expeditions.
I've been looking forward to this all week!
Rewatching this again after recommending it to a friend who's interested in this period of Russian history. Absolutely superb, thank you for all your work.
Hey my friend make a series of Russian Civil War and Independence Wars of the Poland, Baltic States and Ukraine during that time.
These videos are edited so well that you could talk about any military leader in europe and I would still watch it. Exceptional work and thank you to everyone involved in making these videos
A small remark. The word “Volya” means “Freedom” but also means “the Will”. It's a little bit old fashioned. There is a word “Svoboda” that means also “Freedom” but also “Liberty”.
In some context, "volya" could also mean "choice", but there is word even for that "vybor".
Willfull
Can you make a video about Suvorov's Italian and Switzerland campaigns? I hope this would be very interesting. 🤓
The man who didn’t lost any battle. He could confront Napoleon, but died a little bit earlier
In addition about Suvorov there is quite a low quantity of quality content, in addition how great a general he was, he's story deserves telling
Thanks for making this video. I love that Russian movie 'The Admiral' from 2008 about him. It's one of my favourite movies. There was also a longer version of the film that was an 8 episode tv series. It was on Amazon but unfortunately it's been deleted. Both the movie and tv series were epic.
Thank you for sharing, will definetly check out. Really loving Russian movies thesedays especially just to keep sanity.
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Great content .. Great story .. the only thing i didn't like about this episode is that it ended ... For real .. thank you for your hard work
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And most of it completely fabricated
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A little mistake at 07:00. The railway from Chita to Khabarovsk did not exist that time. It was built 10 years later. That is why the only way to Vladivostok via Harbin was so important in the war
Wrong
There is no any mistake here. Wrong is your knowledge. Trans-Siberian railway on the Baikal-Chita section and before crossing the Chinese Eastern railway (КВЖД), connecting woth Port-Arthur, were built before 1904. Only one famous diffucult section of Circum-Baikal railway was unfinished, which is why cargo & people had to be melted on ferries across Lake Baikal.
Another amazing video EHTV! looking forward to part2!
That was intense. Thanks as always for making my trip emjoyable.
If anyone wants to see more on Kolchak, there’s this obscure Russian Biopic from 2008 called “Admiral” that does an excellent, albeit dramatized, job of portraying Kolchak’s life and the major events of the Russian Revolution
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I'd love a series on Pyotr Wrangel.
In the meantime, we can read his memoir, Always With Honor
the Black Baron himself.
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This video was fantastic, thank you for the insight on someone I'd never even heard of!
I think there needs to be more videos on the Russian civil war because it’s a really interesting topic and it’s rarely talked about
Kolchak and Czech legion are still famous in Russia’s folk songs due to their terror and brutality to local population. Song of the Altai partisans (1919). "My father was a natural plowman, And I worked with him. We were attacked by evil Czechs, My native village was set on fire. My father was killed in the first battle, And the mother was burned alive in a fire. My own sister was taken prisoner, And I was left an orphan. I tried for three days and three nights, Rescued his sister from captivity. And on the fourth I tried, I stole my sister from captivity. My sister and I got into the boat, And they floated quietly along the river. But suddenly the bushes began to move, The fatal shot rang out. The villain fired a villainous bullet, He killed my beautiful sister. The sister fell from the boat, I was left completely alone. I'll climb a steep mountain, And I’ll look at my native land - The village is burning, the native is burning, My whole homeland is burning!"
Czechs? Ah, they were defending themselves, they didn't even want to get into Russian trouble. Who won the war? The Bolsheviks. That was manipulation of history, the Soviets were masters at that.
That is a communist propaganda.
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You just gotta love historical figures who went through such a roller coaster trajectory in their lives - Admiral Kolchak included 😉🌊
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really another superb, awesome video, that made me gain an insight into a historical character I didn't know of
It would be cool if this became a series on important characters from the Russian Revolution. You could do one on Trotsky, another on Makhno, Skoropadsky, Tukhachevsky...
Epic History TV, I just want you to know that some productions from you, which are some of the best I've ever seen, is in no small part due your ability to consistently pick and mix music tracks that elevate the experience to something beyond exceptional. Even if its licensed from the a library, you've made me think of some of these tracks as yours when I hear them. Keep up the amazing work!
It almost makes me wish we could have music playlists from you, but that's almost like opening the narrator to the public. Its what makes you so special.
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Hearts of Iron 4: Kasierreich has entered the chat. Kaiser C Cinema's documentaries highlighted this alternative history for Russia on KZhead amid the Germans' victory in the Great Weltkrieg. The video was called 'What if Russian White Forces had won the Civil War?' (Eo4) of their Kasierreich documentaries, which are excellent, and I highly recommend checking them out.
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a czechoslovak general, of a Slovak origin. Also, the czechoslovak legion was mostly made up of Czechs and Slovaks as well, you can't leave out that fact. Otherwise a masterpiece of a video, great educational episode about a mostly forgotten White Russia figure. Thanks for your high-quality content.
right and the fact is that the war against Bolsheviks started that czechoslovak legion when they declined bolshevik's order to seize their weapons.
Slovaks made up only 10% of the Legion, the entire concept of Czechoslovakism was a myth to convince Entente powers to support independendent Czechoslovakia because they would not support tiny independent countries of Czechia let alone Slovakia.
@@ShangZilladamn someone who knows facts
@@ShangZilla Source? If you make this claim you need to have proof because as far as I know there is no reliable source that is telling your figure.
@@dsodragus4616 LIMITY ASYMETRIE: ČEŠI A SLOVÁCI V LEGIÍCH 1914 - 1920 PETR HOFMAN "Střídavé vydávání rozkazů v obou jazycích a jmenování R. Viesta zástupcem velitele 12. pluku bylo zároveň maximem, jehož se v tomto směru podařilo dosáhnout. Řadami čs. legií v Rusku prošlo více jak 71 300 dobrovolníků, z toho 5 104 Slováků (7,16 %)."
In childhood we have a dog named Kolchak, being student I drunk a beer "Kolchak", today being grown man I'm seeing on KZhead a video about Kolchak.
These videos make us learn more about history. Thank you so much bro😘
We ask the author of this best channel ever to make another video about Kolchak. This one is just awesome! Great work!
I don’t know much about Russian imperial time so this will be an incredibly helpful video to expand my knowledge! Thank you! ❤
Excellent effort. The Admiral. A 2008 Russian effort, I have seen at least 3 times. Magnificent Russian photography.
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War criminal*
Why is he a war criminal?@@zombieoverlord5173
@@HawkThunder907 There's an entire wikipedia page on the white terror, read it.
@@zombieoverlord5173 Lenin is a war criminal he caused the deaths of 10-12 million ppl
He did his best, may God rest his soul
Such an interesting figure, glad someone's finally covering him.
Interesting? You mean the most usual story of Tsarist warlord incompetence & failure? It's almost like this channel forgets this guy's own Allies handed him over to the bolsheviks to get hanged after hearing of his atrocities
Learned something new, thanks for this outstanding video!
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I think you just need to make series about all of the great generals in history and their lives
24:24 What is the name of this music?
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Fun Fact: Kolchak is romanian,he came from a romanian family that emigrated to Russia and russified their name,the original name was Colgeac,it would have been interesting to see him win the civil war,he was in a way like the georgian stalin in that he was an outsider who ruled Russia.
except georgia was integrated to russia at the time so stalin probably saw himself as russian, and kolchak was raised as a russian and considered himself as such
I heard a different version. Kolchak was of Bosnian Serb descent. His ancestor served in the Ottoman army and deserted to the Russians at the end of the 18th century.
@@jangrosek4334 every person on earth is serbian 🤡
@@jangrosek4334 Alexander Kolchak ancestor was a Moldavian mercenary by the name of Ilias Colceag, born in modern day Besserabia in the late 17th century. He employed himself in the service of the Ottomans and recieved a post in Bosnia, where he converted to Islam and gradually ascended the ranks to be appointed as pasha by Sultan Ahmed III himself. Afterwards he was stationed as governor of Chotyn fortress in Moldavia as was a native and could speak the local language, sometime in the 1730s. After the Battle of Stavuchany in 1739 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1735-1739, he surrendered the city to the Russian Army led by Fieldmarshal Burkhard Christoph von Muennich and was taken to St. Petersburg as a prisoner of war, together with his son. He was later released during the reign of Empress Anna and was planning on returning to the Ottoman service when he discovered the Sultan Mahmud I had issued a warrant of execution for him on charges of treason for surrndering Chotyn fortress. This led to him remain in Russia, opting to settle in Zytomir, Ukraine , and his son would revert to Orthodox Christianity and enter service in the Russian Army and was later raised to status of landowner and aristocrat during the reign of Empress Elisabeth. I hope this clarified things for you.
This is perfect. I liked too so much.
This was so good. Thank you ehtv
Nice Video! And that Intro was EPIC!
I would like to see the story of Czechoslovak legion in Russia and their struggle to get home on this channel some day. It is an epic story and in the hands of Epic History TV it would be even more epic. :)
Czechoslovak legion and its leader Syrovoy were in fact the traitors. They hung between Bolsheviks and Whites and ran over from one side to another. The biggest crime of the Czechoslovaks was criminal seizure of Kolchak and his extradition to the Bolshevik terrorists. They also gradually stole gold from the Russian imperial Gold reserve and tried to take it out.
@@vinllgaDidn't know that, but I'm not surprised. Butthurt belt did all sorts of sneaky things supporting the Bolsheviks when they thought it would harm only Russia. Blowback is a bitch though :)
Could you do Pyotr Wrangel next? Loved reading his book
AWH is one of my favourite reads, truly a fascinating character.
@@LiamCameron77and a war criminal)
@@MrLexabubadefender of the Fatherland.
@@mirkosavkic794 defender of the fallen regime,nothing else.
@@MrLexabuba I never expected you to understand.
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This is an aspect of history im not very familiar with, the russian civil war fronts and their sides. I'm thrilled to be waiting for part 2
Amazingly informative
Excellent documentary, thank you.
The czech unit was the basis for a new game called 'last train home'. Looks pretty good
Love Russian history. Absolutely elated if you did a video/videos on Peter the Great and the Great Northern war.
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High quality video! It would be amazing if you could make documentaries on the other two major figures of the White Army, General Denikin (South Army) and Pyotr Wrangel (Denikin's successor).
If you want to learn more about early exploration of Russia's Polar NW, and other attempts to find mythical islands or passages up there, read "In the Kingdom of Ice." It's about a failed US expedition in the same region in the mid-late 1800's. They are the ones who found and named Bennett Island while searching for the mythical Wrangleland.
Keep up the good work guys can't wait for the next episode.
Throughout the video I just kept thinking how interesting the topic was, and then you slam down the "that's right, this was merely part ONE". Very much looking forward to the continuation of this SERIES!
"part 1" already appeared on the screen at 1:17 but few noticed it in the moment.
Excellent work as always friend 👍😉👌. Can't wait for part two and Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. I'd like to see covered and the stories of other important people of Russias military history such as Peter the Great, Michael Kutuzov, Georgy Zhukov and others of course except Russia. Such as Frederick the Great, George Washington, Oratios Nelson and a lot others. Maybe and Theodoros Kolokotronis 🇬🇷.
There's a great movie about Kolchak called "Admiral" (2008).
I like the movie overall, but like Napoleon, I think it wasted screen time on romance instead of Kolchak’s military actions in WW1 and civil war.
@@Blackwatch8800 But that was part of his life. That woman spent decades in Stalin's prisons, and after that was featured in some Soviet movies playing roles of noble women. True story. Her life deserves a separate movie.
Series "Admiral" are even better.
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Amazing video as always! Thanks EH TV ❤ It's natural for an empire like Russia, proclaimed as "The third Rome", to have a colosal history as big as its size, and have to go through many struggles both internal and external. And with that, many historical rich stories of great bravery to tragedies, like that of Kolchak. Пусть русские всегда будут свободны и славны!
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Зачем желаете Вы нам свободы? Наш Император Александр II "Освободитель" на то и освободитель что нас освободил! Мы народ свободный и боремся за свое право быть свободными всю свою историю - от монгольского 'ига' и до нынешнего конфликта. Спасибо что интересуетесь Нашей историей
@@user-cf7qy1ev2o ok I listened, sorry for that I am not russians. And you have proved what I have said "freedom for the russians" in my words mean "Shall the russians always have freedom" as they had fought many wars for its freedom and based upon current Russian Goverment, you are still trying to have a better democracy. Russian literatures and history have always fascinated me. Can't say enough about how many Russian heroes are still behind the back of my mind. I fixed it now so shall there be no more misunderstanding 🤣
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In September 2001, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation left the ruling of the military court of the Trans-Baikal Military District of January 26, 1999 unchanged, fully agreeing with the conclusions of the district court. The Supreme Court of Russia recognized that Kolchak was a war criminal, and therefore not subject to rehabilitation, and the essence of his crime was that he, having significant powers of power, did not stop the terror of the civilian population in the eastern part of Russia, which was under the regime of the White movement.
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