Tchernetzov's Partisans

Colonel Tchernetzov's Partisan Company
Don Cossacks flag
Active	November 1917 - February 1918
Country	Don Republic
Allegiance	Don Army, Volunteer Army
Branch	Cavalry
Nickname(s)	Tchernetzovci
Equipment	Michailovo-Konstantinovskaya Artillery Battery
Commanders
Notable commanders	Vasily Tchernetzov

Tchernetzov's Partisans was an independent Don Cossacks military force commissioned under the act of ataman Alexey Kaledin on November 7, 1917, in the opening stages of Russian Civil War. The 600-man regiment-size unit was formed of Don Cossack officers and students of the Novocherkassk.^[1] However, many Bolsheviks considered Vasily Tchernetzov and his men brutal counter-revolutionaries, who were not entitled to protection when captured, as was the case with other prisoners of war. Colonel Tchernetzov's death at the hands of the Bolsheviks was explored in Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

After the death of Vasily Tchernetzov, surviving members joined the Volunteer Army's Ice March in the end of February 1918.

Commanders

• Colonel Vasily Tchernetzov

See also

• List of Don Army Units in the Civil War
• White movement
• Don Army
• Volunteer Army
• Russian Civil War

Notes