General Wrangel died in Brussels in 1928, but over a year later, according to his will, he was buried in the crypt of the Russian church in Belgrade. He rests there to this day, alongside thousands of loyal comrades and officers of his army, to whom he dedicated his last strength. This mutual trust between the commander-in-chief and his subordinates knows no bounds and is not limited by his death or time. Both in life and after death, he remains in line with his officers, soldiers, and Cossacks. His reburial in Moscow, separate from his devoted comrades and their descendants, is only possible for very compelling reasons. If he were alive, he would hardly agree to leave his army for a move to Moscow, knowing that Lenin and Stalin still occupy an honored place there.
General Wrangel's last words on Russian soil in 1920 concerned fulfilling duty to the end. The memory of General Wrangel lives on in us, his descendants, just as the memory of his comrades does. The duty and testament of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army will not be fulfilled as long as the mausoleum on Red Square and the burials of the red executioners within the walls of the Kremlin exist.
The epitaph spoken by Archpriest Vasily Vinogradov in 1928 in Belgium comes to mind: "Kissing his sacred remains for us, let us promise to kindle within ourselves an undying love for our impoverished homeland and a sacred fire of irreconcilability towards the godless authority, not compromising, no matter who it comes from. In the world, one must live with one's enemies, but not with God's." Valuing your sincere initiative, Sergey Sergeyevich, we regret with a heavy heart that the time for the reburial of General Wrangel in his homeland has not yet come.
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