Maurice Janin


Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin was a French general and military commander who was the chief of the French military mission in Siberia during the Russian Civil War.
As such, he commanded the Czechoslovak Legion especially in Russia.
Janin is recipient of the Latvian military Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class.
He was also ordered the Czechoslovak Military variant of Order of the White Lion in 1923.

In fiction

In the 2008 Russian biopic The Admiral, Janin is played by Richard Bohringer.