Двойные «перевертыши» в Корпусе Генштаба Красной Армии: подполковник А. Д. Сыромятников и его служебная карьера
“Double Shifters” in the General Staff of the Red Army: Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Syromyatnikov and his Career

Summary/Abstract: “Double shifters” in the history of the “second Russian Troubles” by the start of the last century — a phenomenon all the more remarkable that it affected members of the intellectual elite, as the Russian Imperial Army, and the Red Army — the graduates of the Academy of General Staff (AGSH, “General Staff”). For a very brief historical period of these characters (there were more than 20) were able by starting the service in the camp of the “red”, then served a certain period at the “white” and then come back again to serve in the Red Army, and even make the latter a very decent career. The hero of our article is the General Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Dmitrievich Syromyatnikov. After a short period of teaching military sciences in AGSH of the Red Army in the spring — not later than the 23–24 July 1918 resulting in the evacuation AGSH from Ekaterinburg to Kazan Syromyatnikov not just happened in the service of the “white” camp in the east of the former empire, and was later one of the authors and active participants in the Kolchak`s coup in Omsk, November 18, 1918. With the collapse of “kolchakovshina” he returned to serve in the Red Army and not only was no immediately shot by the Bolsheviks as “former Kolchak,” but did have in “red” camp in the beginning a very successful career in the military educational system, becoming the head of a very prestigious regional military school — Higher Military School of Siberia.

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