Mikhail Baron
Mikhail Baron (Russian: Михаи́л Дави́дович Ба́рон; b. 1894) was an anarchist and socialist revolutionary, brother of Aron Baron. A red cossack of Ukrainian Jewish origin, he was also one of the founders of the Red Cossacks Army of the Ukrainian Republic.
On 27 December 1917, he was assigned the task of forming the first Regiment of the Red Cossacks Army, under the command of Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov.
In March 1918 he was appointed commandant of Poltava, one of his tasks being to defend the city against interventionists. The same month, acting as an intermediary between the Ekaterinoslav Federation of Anarchists and the Soviet authorities, he put an end to the armed conflict between anarchists and bolsheviks in Ekaterinoslav. In May 1918, after the German army entered the city, Baron and his anarchist troops retreated to Rostov-on-Don. The next month, in the Tsaritsyn area, they were disarmed by the Soviet authorities, like all other Ukrainian anarchist groups. In September, in the neutral zone, Baron and Vitaly Primakov set up the first Ukrainian Insurgent Division, which later became the Tarashcha Regiment. Baron was, for several months the Regiment's commanding Ataman. Later, he joined the Bolshevik Party.
Baron
Baron is a title of honour, often hereditary, and ranks as one of the lower titles in the various nobiliary systems of Europe. The female equivalent is Baroness.
Etymology
The word baron comes from the Old French baron, from a Late Latin baro "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic Law; Alemannic Law has barus in the same sense). The scholar Isidore of Seville in the 7th century thought the word was from Greek βαρύς "heavy" (because of the "heavy work" done by mercenaries), but the word is presumably of Old Frankish origin, cognate with Old English beorn meaning "warrior, nobleman". Cornutus in the first century already reports a word barones which he took to be of Gaulish origin. He glosses it as meaning servos militum and explains it as meaning "stupid", by reference to classical Latin bārō "simpleton, dunce"; because of this early reference, the word has also been suggested to derive from an otherwise unknown Celtic *bar, but the Oxford English Dictionary takes this to be "a figment".
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