Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Vinogradov moved to Siberia in 1918, in the wake of the October Revolution, and at the Ufa State Conference, was chosen as deputy for N. I. Astrov on the Ufa Directory (even though he had not been elected to the Constituent Assembly). During the Omsk coup, he adopted a neutral position, merely resigning his post following the arrest of directors who were members of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries, but in the summer of 1919 he emerged as a member of a putative “loyal opposition” to the Omsk government, as a member of the State Economic Conference. When it became clear that Admiral A. V. Kolchak was not willing to cooperate with that body, however, Vinogradov resigned and made his way to Vladivostok, where he participated in planning the Gajda putsch. He remained active in politics around Vladivostok until at least 1920, but his subsequent fate is unknown.

Vishnevskii, Evgenii Kondrat′evich (1 November 1876–after 1945). Colonel (1916), major general (13 August 1918). One of the leading White military administrators in Siberia, E. K. Vishnevskii was born into a noble family at Brest-Litovsk, in Grodno guberniia, and was a graduate of Odessa Infantry Officers School (1898). He served in the Russo–Japanese War, and during the First World War, rose to the command of the 64th Siberian Rifle Regiment (from 21 March 1917) and then the 25th Siberian Rifle Depot Regiment (from 9 October 1917).

From January 1918, Vishnevskii was active in underground officer organizations at Tomsk, and along with Colonel A. N. Pepeliaev, was one of the organizers of the anti-Bolshevik rising in that city in May 1918, in the wake of the revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion. He subsequently commanded the 2nd Siberian Rifle Division (23 June 1918–9 January 1919), while also serving in various military-administrative posts. From 15 April to 5 August 1919, he was chief of the Military-Administrative Directorate of the Region of the Western Army of Admiral A. V. Kolchak, in which capacity he oversaw the evacuation of Ufa in early June.

During the collapse of Kolchak’s Russian Army in late 1919, Vishnevskii made his way to the Far East and enlisted in the army of the Provisional Government of the Maritime Province Zemstvo, commanding the Siberian Rifle Regiment (from 10 October 1921), the 3rd Independent Brigade (from 23 March 1922), and the 1st Rifle Brigade of the Grodekovo Group (from 15 May 1922). He participated in the Iakutsk Ice March of General A. N. Pepeliaev, but escaped capture by the Reds and was evacuated from the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk on a Japanese schooner in 1923.

In emigration, Vishnevskii lived in China, where he authored one of the very few firsthand accounts of the events in Iakutia, Argonavty beloi mechty (“The Argonauts of the White Dream,” 1933). He is known to have been working as a bookkeeper with the Gun Bao publishing company from 1930 to 1935, and from 1936 he was employed by the Bureau for the Affairs of Russian Emigrants in Manchuria, as well as assisting in the local operations of ROVS, but his subsequent fate is unknown.

Vitkovskii, Vladimir Konstantinovich (21 April 1885–19 January 1978). Colonel (6 December 1916), major general (December 1918), lieutenant general (April 1920). One of the most dynamic leaders of White forces in South Russia, V. K. Vitkovskii was a graduate of the 1st Cadet Corps (1903) and the Pavlovsk Military School (1905) and served with the Keksgolm Life Guards Regiment, commanding a battalion in the First World War. On 2 October 1917, he was made commander of the 199th Kronshtadt Infantry Regiment.