 lavr georgiyevich kornilov (, ; 18 august 1870 â 13 april 1918) was a military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the imperial russian army during world war i and the ensuing russian civil war. he is today best remembered for the kornilov affair, an unsuccessful endeavor in august/september 1917 that purported to strengthen alexander kerensky's provisional government, but which led to kerensky eventually having kornilov arrested and charged with attempting a coup d'Ã©tat, and ultimately undermined the rule of kerensky; strengthening the claims and power of the soviets, and the bolshevik party. ==pre-revolutionary career== one story relates how kornilov was originally born as a don cossack kalmyk named lorya dildinov and adopted in ust-kamenogorsk, russian turkestan (now kazakhstan) by the family of his mother's brother, the russian cossack chorÄÅ¼y george kornilov, whose wife was of kazakh origin. a. l. bauman. governors of saint-petersburg. saint-petersburg, 2003. p. 409 ÐÐ°ÑÐ¼Ð°Ð½ Ð. Ð. Ð ÑÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»Ð¸ Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³Ð°. ÑÑÑ. 409  but his sister wrote that he had not been adopted, had not been a don cossack, and that their mother had polish and altai oirot descent. (though their language was not a kalmyk/mongolian one, but because of their asian race and their history in the jungar oirot (kalmyk) state, altai oirots were called altai kalmyks by russians. they were not muslims or kazakhs.) but boris shaposhnikov, who served with petr kornilov, the brother of lavr, in 1903, mentioned the "kyrgyz" ancestry of their mother - thi
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