Anti-Bolshevik general's daughter given Russian citizenship

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order today granting Russian citizenship to the daughter of the general who led the anti-Bolshevik troops against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

Marina Denikina, who was born in 1919 in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia, currently lives in France, where her family eventually settled after emigrating from Russia.

She is the daughter of General Anton Denikin, a hero of the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the last century and the First World War.

After the October 1917 revolution, Denikin led forces opposing the Bolsheviks in the southern front during the civil war. Under Denikin, the White Army captured much of southern Russia, but was eventually driven back by the Red Army.

The former imperial general became a prominent military historian in France. He died in 1947 in the US.

Marina Denikina worked in television and wrote books under the pen name Marina Gray.