Dukhonin
GENERAL, a Russian soldier, on the General Staff during the World War, who succeeded General Kornilov in command of the Russian army when the latter was arrested by the Provisional Government for his attempt to assume dictatorial powers in the summer of 1917. General Dukhonin was in command at the front when the Bolsheviki precipitated their revolution and came into power, during the second week of November, 1917. When commanded by the Soviet Government to send a flag of truce through the lines to open negotiations with the Germans, for the purpose of discussing peace terms, General Dukhonin refused, whereupon he was displaced by Abram Krylenko.
A few days later he was thrown off a moving train by his own soldiers and killed.