By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 March 2026
The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: 1860s to 1915
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Russia, the Armenians, and the Ottoman Empire: A First World War Memoir
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 March 2026
Gavriil Korganov, whose name is sometimes Anglicised as Gabriel Korganov, was born on 3 May 1880 in Tiflis in the Russian Empire, what is now Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia. Korganov was from a military family and joined the Tiflis Cadet Corps in 1897. Two years later, Korganov enrolled in the Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy in Saint Petersburg and went on to the General Staff Academy. Korganov would become a General in the Imperial Russian Army, and at some point joined the Freemasons. Korganov was to be a significant player in the First World War.
The “Whites” in the Russian Civil War Were Not Monarchists
Ruth Morton and British Intelligence in the Falklands War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 December 2025
An article appeared today about an interview given by Ruth Morton, an Uruguayan woman of British descent in her late 90s, who says she worked for British intelligence during the Falklands War. Morton, whose family had served the British war effort in the 1940s, says that she was involved in spying on the Argentine submarine base at Mar del Plata, on the coast of north-eastern Argentina, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, adjacent to the border with Uruguay. A translation of the article is given below.
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