Abstract
The paper highlights General P. N. Shatilov’s role in organizing the Russian Army resettlement from Gallipoli and Lemnos to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1921. The article explains the need to resettle the troops, reveals causes of conflict between P. N. Wrangel’s headquarters and the French occupation troops’ headquarters in Constantinople, emphasizes the chief officers’ efforts to maintain the army’s fighting capacity, analyses the circumstances that forced them to abandon the plan to resettle the troops to the Far East. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the author introduces previously unknown sources into scientific circulation. As a result, a detailed description of General P. N. Shatilov’s visit to Belgrade in April 1921 is presented. The author shows how this visit facilitated permission from Regent Alexander Karađorđević and Prime Minister N. Pašić to accommodate the Russian troops in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Russian soldiers’ and Cossacks’ role in the national borders protection, in the national railway system development is revealed.
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