Mikhail Berens

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Mikhail Andreyevich Berens (Russian: Михаил Андреевич Беренс; January 16, 1879 – January 20, 1943) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy and the White Navy during the Russian Civil War. Mikhail Berens was born in Kutaisi, Georgia, and graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1898. He commanded the gunboat Gilyak in the Imperial Russian Navy where he distinguished himself during the suppression of Taku Forts during the Boxer Rebellion. He was promoted to captain in 1904 and stationed with the Russian Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur During the Russo-Japanese War, as a junior officer, he served as navigator on the battleship Sevastopol, and was captain of the destroyer Boyki after the Battle of the Yellow Sea. After the Russian defeat, Berens escaped with his ship to Qingdao and was interned for the remainder of the war. In 1906 he joined the Baltic Fleet and was the executive officer of the cruiser Diana and subsequently commanded the destroyer Novik during World War I. On August 18, 1915, he engaged two German destroyers in the Gulf of Riga, sinking one and inflicting heavy damage on the other. For this action, he was awarded the Order of St. George from Russia and the Legion of Honour from France. In 1916, he was promoted to captain of the battleship Petropavlovsk and became chief of staff of the Russian Baltic Fleet in 1917. Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Provisional Government dismissed him in 1918 without pension. He escaped from in March 1919 Petrograd via Finland and joined Admiral Kolchak, who gave him the rank of rear admiral and assigned him command the White Movement naval forces at Vladivostok.