Pavel Bermondt-Avalov

Pavel Bermondt-Avalov and participated in his attacks on Riga and on northwestern Lithuania. Bermondt’s campaign, however, was unsuccessful, and by December 15 all German troops had finally abandoned Latvia and Lithuania.

…an obscure White Russian adventurer, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov. On October 8, 1919, Bermondt-Avalov’s forces attacked the Latvian army and pushed into the suburbs of Riga. Simultaneously, in an effort to establish communications with Germany, his army moved into western Lithuania. The Latvians, assisted by an Anglo-French naval squadron, counterattacked and defeated…

…an anti-Bolshevik “White Russian” adventurer, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, were to fight the Red Army, cooperating with the White Russian armies of commanders Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak, Anton Ivanovich Denikin, and Nikolay Yudenich, supported by the Allies. But on October 8 Bermondt-Avalov attacked the Latvian troops and occupied the suburbs of Riga south…