page_title: Afrikan P. Bogaewsky
section_title: Russian Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: Afrikan P. Bogaewsky / Russian Civil War
caption_attribution_description: Новочеркасск. Вручение награды белому генералу Богаевскому в июле 1919 года
context_page_description: Afrikan Petrovich Bogaewsky, 8 January 1873, in Stanitsa Kamenskaya – October 1934, in Paris, from the Don Cossacks family of Bogaewskich. He was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army when he was also Ataman of Don Republic.
context_section_description: After the October Revolution, Bogaewky travelled form Kiev to the Don where he arrived in December 1917. He participated in the First Kuban Campaign and became leader of the 2nd brigade of the Volunteer Army.
  Between May 1918 and January 1919, he was part of the leadership of the Don Army under Ataman Pyotr Krasnov.
   
  In February 1919, he replaced Krasnov as Ataman of the Don Cossacks, a title he would hold until his death.
   
  He fought with Denikin and Wrangel against the Bolsheviks and was evacuated from the Crimea in November 1920.
  He lived in Constantinople, Sofia and Belgrade, but settled in Paris in 1923.
  
  He died there of a heart attack on October 21, 1934. He was buried on October 28 in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.
  Bogaewsky was awarded Order of Prince Danilo I and a number of other decorations.
caption: Presentation of an award to General Bogaevsky in Novocherkassk, July 1919
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