Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)

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Lived 1885–1921, aged 36Austria

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Era
1885–1921
Aged 36
Awards
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Summary

Updated 2026-06-09

A Baltic German officer who drove Chinese forces from Mongolia in 1921 and ruled by mass executions, attempting to fuse Russian monarchism with dreams of a reborn Mongol Empire under Buddhist theocracy.

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Born into the Russian Empire's Baltic German nobility, Ungern-Sternberg served as a military officer through the empire's collapse. After the 1917 Revolution he became an ultraconservative warlord in the Russian Civil War, fixated on restoring the Russian throne and reviving Mongol imperial power under the Bogd Khan. His devotion to Vajrayana Buddhism and his brutal treatment of soldiers and enemies earned him the nickname "the Mad Baron". In February 1921, commanding the Asiatic Cavalry Division, he expelled Chinese troops from Outer Mongolia and reinstalled the Bogd Khan, then ruled the capi…

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I hate equality. It is the lie of the prophets. No people is equal to another. No man is equal to another. I love the exceptional precisely because they are the exception.

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