Vasily Tchernetzov
Vasily Mihailovich Tchernetzov was a Don Cossack Russian Imperial Army officer who served as a colonel in the Don Army during the Russian Civil War. He led Tchernetzov's Partisans, an independent irregular Don Cossacks military company commissioned after the Act of Ataman by Alexey Kaledin on November 7, 1917.Awards
The deaths of Colonel Tchernetzov and his Partisans by Bolsheviks are part of the plot of the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don.
