White Knight Shambhala. Ungern von Sternberg R.F.

The famous Russian general, a prominent white movement, Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg belonged to one of the oldest knightly families of the Baltic Territory. The personality of Baron Ungern is complex and ambiguous and literally woven from contradictions. The descendant of the Teutons, he was endowed with the features of the Russian autocrat, eastern satrap and clairvoyant; The “last knight”, a native of the Middle Ages, is marked by an indelible stigma of the “Iron”, twentieth, century; The monarchist reactionary, an irreconcilable fighter with a revolution, himself was a passionate, who intended to follow in the footsteps of Genghis Khan and recreate the Russian empire from the shores of the Indian and Pacific Oceans to the Caspian; And then the powerful horde move west.

Russians, Buryats, Mongols - princes with their soldiers and ordinary cattle breeds, Buddhist priests and monks flowed under its banners. Even Vladyka Tibet Dalai Lama XIII, who declared Baron a fighter for faith, sent him a group of his guards. The Mongols called him Tsagan-Burkhan, the "god of war", and considered the embodiment of the Lamaist deity, which brutally punishes the enemies of "yellow faith."

Subjected to the associates, abandoned in the middle of the steppe, he was found by a detachment of red partisans and issued to be torn to pieces by the revolutionary tribunal. The court lasted 5 hours 20 minutes, after which Baron Ungern was shot. He was 35 years old at that time.

What did he leave on his own? Found independence and statehood Mongolia, evidence of incredible military enterprises, terrible stories of mass torture and executions, and most importantly - a legend. In this legend, he did not die, but still jumps on the steppes and deserts to one visible goal...