Nikolai Skoblin

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikolai Skoblin (Russian: ) (1892-1938?) was a general in the counterrevolutionary White Russian army, a member of the expatriate Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), a Soviet double agent, and husband to the gypsy folk-singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya (1882-1940). Skoblin was a cavalry officer in the Kornilov Division of the White Russian Army during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920. He was known for both his bravery and cruelty. Red soldiers captured by Skoblin's men were hanged or shot on the spot. It is said he met his wife, Plevitskaya during the war. The romantic version is that Skoblin captured his wife during a raid against the Red Army. She was Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a committed Bolshevik considered to be a great beauty, who had been traveling the front singing and entertaining Red Army troops.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikolai Skoblin (Russian: ) (1892-1938?) was a general in the counterrevolutionary White Russian army, a member of the expatriate Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), a Soviet double agent, and husband to the gypsy folk-singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya (1882-1940). Skoblin was a cavalry officer in the Kornilov Division of the White Russian Army during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920. He was known for both his bravery and cruelty. Red soldiers captured by Skoblin's men were hanged or shot on the spot. It is said he met his wife, Plevitskaya during the war. The romantic version is that Skoblin captured his wife during a raid against the Red Army. She was Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a committed Bolshevik considered to be a great beauty, who had been traveling the front singing and entertaining Red Army troops.