The Bloody White Baron (48 page)

Samsonov, General Alexandr

Satunin, Captain

Scheuber-Richter, Max von

Second Russo-Japanese War (1939)

Second World War

Semenov, Captain Grigori Michaelovich ; appearance;
ataman
(chief) of the Transbaikal; attacks on railways; First World War service ; hanged (1946); Pan-Mongolia scheme; personality ; plans evacuation to Manchuria; post-war career; recruits for a Mongol-Buriat Regiment; relationship with Ungern ; schism with the White movement; tolerance of Jews ; tool of a foreign power; in Urga

shamanism

Shambhala legend

shape-shifting

Shchetinkin, P. E.

Shinto

Siberia

Siberian Expeditionary Force

Sipailov, Colonel

socialism

Sons of Israel regiment

Soviet Union: fall of; imperialism of; Sino-Soviet split; Ungern attempts to invade

Sovnoska Garden Theatre, Novonikolaevsk

Special Manchurian Division

Spengler, Oswald:
The Decline of the West

Stalin, Joseph

Stepanov, Captain

Strasser, Rudolf

Suharev (Cossack leader)

Suhbaatar, Damdin

Sun Yat-Sen, Dr

Sunderland, Willard

Sundui Gun, Prince

Suuremõisa, Hiiumaa, Estonia

swastika

 

Taiwan

Tanna Tuva

Tannenberg, battle of (1914)

Tartars, Tatars

Tassi

Tasuki, Hideo

Theosophy

Thubten Choekyi Nyima

Thule Society

Tibet: British expedition (1904); cavalry; Chinese invasion (1950) ; Japanese involvement ; treaty with Mongolia (1913); Ungern fascinated by; Ungern proposes retreating to

Tibetans

Togtokh, Prince

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Trans-Siberian Railway

Transbaikal

tripartite conference (1914)

Trotskii, Leon

Tsam, Captain Herzl Yankl

Tsongkapa

 

Ugadai

Uighur of Xinjiang (Turkestan)

Ukraine

Ulaanbaatar
see
Urga

Ungern-Sternberg, Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von: appearance ; attacks on Urga; attempts to invade Russia; becomes the Baron; birth (Graz, 1885); and Buddhism; captured by the Reds; childhood ; commander of Dauria; concept of divine monarchy; conspiracy to murder him; Cross of St George ; death (15 September, 1921); a delusional psychopath; education and military training; family background; First World War service; funding; and Genghis reincarnation; as a god ; hatred of the Bolsheviks; hatred of Jews
see under
Jews; influences on; invades Mongolia; joins a Cossack regiment; leaves regiments because of duels; legend of his treasure; in literature ; made a
khan
; marriage ; in military prison (1916-17); movements in Mongolia (map); opium smoking; Order of Military Buddhists; and Ossendowski; personality ; rages ; raises an army with Semenov ; reasons for his actions; relationship with the Bogd; relationship with Semenov,
112, 113, 115, 116; riding skills; Russo-Japanese war; sadism ; state affairs; trial

Ungern-Sternberg, Friedrich (cousin)

Ungern-Sternberg, Otto von

Ungern-Sternberg, Sophie Charlotte von (née von Wimpffen; mother)

Ungern-Sternberg, Theodor Leonhard Rudolf von (father)

Ungern-Sternberg family

Union of the Russian People

Urga (Ulan Bator), Mongolia; Bogd Khan invites Ungern; Chinese traders; Chinese troops in; a city of religion; defences; described; fall of; festivals; firepower; Jews purged in; law and order; murders by the Bureau; Russian consulate; Russian garrisons; soldiers defending; taken by Ungern; topography; Ungern's attacks on; Ungern's building projects

Urianhai, Mongolia

Ussuri Host

 

Verkhne-Udinsk (Ulan-Ude)

Veselovskii, Captain

Vinberg, Fyodor

Vlasov, Andrei

Volkisch
pan-German movements

Vrangel, General Petr Nikolaeivich

War Participation Office

Wehrmacht

Western Front

Whites, the: the term

Wilhelm, Kaiser

Wimpfen, Baroness (maternal grandmother) 41

Winter Palace, St Petersburg

Witte, Baron

 

Xu Shicheng

Xu Shuzheng (Xiao Xu (‘Little Xu'))

 

Yama, Colonel Hiro

Yamato dynasty

Yellow Hat sect

‘Yellow Peril'

Yonghe Gong Temple, Peking

Younghusband, Sir Francis

Yuan dynasty

Yuan Shikai, General

 

Zabaikal (Transbaikal) Cossack Host

Zam Kuren, Mongolia

Zazubrin, Vladimir

Zhang Zuolin

Zhukov, General

Zilovo station

‘Zunder Document'

Zunzhar kingdom, Mongolia

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Maps © 2008 András Bereznay

 

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