A memorial plaque has been installed on the house in Brussels where one of the founders of the White movement, Pyotr Wrangel, spent his last days. The golden square plaque bears black letters in Russian and French stating: "In this house lived from 1926 until his death General Baron P.N. Wrangel (1878-1928), Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army from 1920 to 1924."

Archbishop Michael of Geneva and Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad consecrated the plaque amidst church hymns, reports ITAR-TASS. The ceremony at number 17 on Rue Belle-Hair was opened by Countess Maria Apraxina, whose father, Nikolai Kotliarevsky, was Wrangel's personal secretary. After the general's death, Kotliarevsky spent a year collecting his archive, which is now stored at Stanford University Library in California.

Apraxina recalls that for her father, Wrangel was a true hero. Alexey Grigoryev, the cultural attaché of the Russian Embassy in Belgium, called the event "deeply symbolic," noting that it is not only a tribute to a great man but also a contribution to understanding history when passions subside and events can be assessed objectively.

Pyotr Wrangel, one of the founders of the White movement during the Civil War, became Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army in 1920 and led the resistance against the Bolsheviks. After setbacks on the front in November of that year, he emigrated from Crimea to Constantinople, organizing the evacuation of 150,000 people. In 1927, Wrangel moved to Brussels with his family, where he died suddenly from tuberculosis the following year. In October 1929, his remains were ceremoniously reburied in Belgrade.