September 28, 2018 in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), where the main Bolshevik Ulyanov-Lenin was born, a solemn opening ceremony of a memorial plaque in memory of the St. George Cavalry, an active fighter against Bolshevism of the General Staff Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kaple and soldiers of the 1st Volga Army enclosures. A plaque was installed near the checkpoint of the Interspecies Regional Training Center of the communications troops.
The board was consecrated by the head of the Simbirsk metropolis, Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospassky Anastassy, who made a memorial service for the white general and his comrades.
The opening ceremony was attended by members of the mission to return Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, head of the Patriarchal Commission for Family, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, and Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, Vice President of the Skobelevsky Committee Alexander Alekaev, representatives of Cossack societies and public organizations whose activities aims to preserve historical memory.
The memorial plaque states:
“On the morning of July 22, 1918, Simbirsk was occupied by a detachment of the General Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Kappel.
The volunteer officers of the former 5th Uhlan Lithuanian regiment of the Russian Imperial Army took the side of Detachment V.O. Kappel and in the evening united in the 1st Simbirsk instructor officer battalion.
After going through hard battles, trials and hardships, the lancers became participants in the Great Siberian Ice Campaign.
In 1920, having finished their journey in the city of Harbin (northeastern China), they called themselves the proud name KAPPLEVTS.
The plaque is dedicated to the soldiers of the 1st Volga Army Corps of General Kappel ”.
Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, who participated in the opening of a memorial plaque to General Vladimir Kappel in Simbirsk, called symbolic that the memory sign of a white general and an active fighter against Bolshevism appeared in the city where the chief revolutionary and bolshevik Lenin.
In light of the fact that ideological supporters of Bolshevism, who have already achieved the dismantling of the memorial plaque to Admiral Alexander Kolchak in St. Petersburg, have recently raised their heads, they tried to demolish the monument to Admiral Kolchak in Irkutsk, and also protested against the installation of a memorial plaque to General Mannerheim, father Dmitry He called it important that there were good people in Simbirsk who came up with a similar initiative.
As for possible protests, then, as the priest said, “fearing wolves — not going to the forest”. “We do not need to pay any attention to this, but do what we are called to. For example, I will pray that not only the memory of Kappel, who freed Simbirsk from the Bolsheviks, was immortalized, but also returned to Tukhachevsky Street, on which this board now hangs, its historic name Slobodskaya. ”
“I know that Tukhachevsky fought with simple peasants whom he gassed, carried out chemical attacks and smoked them out of the forests. So he was such a general, he was just for the part to fight with the unarmed peasants. And now in honor of him in Simbirsk there is a whole street. Well, it's just strange, ”said Father Dimitri, adding that, if he had his will, he would have removed the name of this figure from the city toponymy long ago.
“For this, there are competent people in the city. I hope they will pay attention to this, ”the priest concluded.