Alexander Trushnovich

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Aleksandar Rudolfovich Trushnovich (**Slovenian:** *Aleksandar Trušnović*) is a Czech soldier of Slovenian and ethnic Russian origin. Born in 1893 in Slovenia, the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, originally Catholic, converted to Orthodox faith in his time in Russia.

## Slovenia to Russia

Born to a family of ethnic Slav in the Austrian Empire, from an early age Trushnovich was already a slavophile and russophile, not at all strange at the time of the South Slav national awakening. Studied at the University of Vienna before enlisting in the army during the First Great War. After the Austrian defeats in the Carpathians in 1915, along with many of his Slavs comrades deflected to the Russian side. Returned to the front in the Serbian Volunteer Division (the Yugoslav volunteers) before transfering into General Kornilov's command. In the outbreak of the Russian Revolution and the civil war, he led the Czech company of the 1st Kornilov Shock Regiment, participated in the first Kornilovite Pustch. Fought with distinction and loyalty in the Civil War in South Russia. Dismissed from the Army at the rank of Captain.

Became a dedicated Kornilovist and Pan-Slavist during the interwar, Trushnovich spent most of his time as a political writers and completed his medical study and practiced as a doctor for a while and as a Major in the reserve. Participated as a volunteer during the 2nd Kornilovite Push in 1937, briefly served in the Main Military Medical Directorate during the first 2 years of the Second Great War that Russia did not participate in. Returned to commanding office of a battalion of the 3rd (Kornilov) Infantry Regiment in 1941.

## Russia to Czechia

With the goals of the Westward conquest, the old war schemes of the Empire was pulled up again, as the Russian Army and her allies now penetrating the South and Western Slavdom. Many former Czechoslovak legionaries have reassmbled from those that settled in Russian and arriving from the East in a struggle for national liberation that they have los in 1918, Kornilov's assent to this motion and fully support this, knowing that the Western forces have already also assembled their own "Free Czechslovak Legion", the restored Legion in Russia was to be led by General Jan Syrový. Trushnovich was assigned deputy commander of the regiment-sized Legion reinforced by the 3rd Kornilov Regiment. By the end of the war, the Legion numbered 4 brigades, numbering 12,000 troops mainly recruited from the PoW camps and the Czech settlers of the original Legion in Russia, the rest supplemented by Slavic people of other origins. Smaller than its original size in 1918 but was bigger still than the Free Czechslovaks numbering only half.

With the collapse of Austria and the Secret Dossier, the Russian Army swept across Prussia to reach the western front. Mechanised Russian troops enter Prague before the Legionaries a few days, the Polish have already overran Slovakia months before during the Great Hungarian Plain Offensive, now proclaimed the independent Slovak State, which forced the Russian to push the Legion to accept the independence of the Czech Republic made up of Czech and Germans.

Alexander Trushnovich under order of the Vozhd was appointed as Deputy National Defense Minister of the Czech Republic, along with the honours of honourary citizenship in service to the slavdom and the Czech people over his long career. Referred in Western Presses like L'Humanité and Paris libre as a "Kornilov's governor" and a "Muscovite leash on the Czech people". Attemped on his life occured twice by underground cadres of the Free Czechslovakia Legion.

Supported fully the Young Kornilovite pustch in 1948, he remained in the post to this day.