The grandson of Admiral Alexander Kolchak died. This was announced by the Union of the Descendants of Gallipoli on Facebook. Kolchak was 85 years old. He died on March 9th in Paris after a long illness. The exact cause of death is not called.
Alexander Rostislavovich Kolchak was born in 1933 in France. He studied at the Christian College in Meudon. He served in the French army in Algeria 1954-1956. He was a teacher of foreign languages. He studied at the Sorbonne and was a jazz musician. His grandfather, Admiral Alexander V. Kolchak, was the leader of the White movement during the Civil War. From November 1918 until his death, he was the Supreme Ruler of Russia. He was shot in 1920 in Irkutsk. His wife Sophia and her son Rostislav fled to Romania, and then to Paris.