The X-Files was inspired by shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Being heavily influenced by Kolchak, Carter wanted to create a scary television show, as he thought there was not anything scary on television at the time.

In 1920, Aleksandr Kolchak, the once-feared commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces, was executed in Irkutsk, which effectively destroyed the anti-Bolshevik resistance.

The Aleksandr Kolchak monument, designed by Vyacheslav Klykov, was unveiled in 2004.

The " Provisional All-Russian Government " was established here in 1918, headed by the Arctic explorer and decorated war hero Admiral Kolchak.

During the Crimean War of 1853 – 1856, one of seven surviving defenders of a stone tower on the Malakov Kurgan, which were found by French troops among the dead, was seriously wounded Vasily Kolchak – the father of the future Supreme ruler ( head of all the counter-revolutionary anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War ) of Russia Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak.

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (, – 7 February 1920 ) was a Russian naval commander, polar explorer and later-the Supreme ruler of the counter-revolutionary anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War.

Kolchak was born in Saint Petersburg in 1874.

Kolchak was educated for a naval career, graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1894 and joining the 7th Naval Battalion of the city.

Kolchak took part in two Arctic expeditions and for a while was nicknamed " Kolchak-Poliarnyi " (" Kolchak the Polar ").

In December 1903, Kolchak was on his way back to St. Petersburg, there to marry his fiancee Sophia Omirova.

Returning to Saint Petersburg in April 1905, Kolchak was promoted to lieutenant commander.

Admiral Essen was not satisfied to remain only on the defensive and ordered Kolchak to prepare a scheme for attacking the approaches of the German naval bases.

Kolchak, being of the opinion that the person responsible for planning operations should take part in their execution, was always on board those ships which carried out the operations and sometimes took direct command of the destroyer flotillas.

Kolchak was removed from command of the fleet in June and travelled to Petrograd.

On his arrival at Petrograd, Kolchak was invited to a meeting of the Provisional Government.

When the news was received by the then Naval Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, he ordered Kolchak to leave immediately for America ( Admiral James H. Glennon, member of American mission, headed by Senator Elihu Root invited Kolchak to go to America in order to give the American Navy Department information on Bosphorus ).

Kolchak was a supporter of the Provisional Government and returned to Russia, through Vladivostok, in 1918.

Kolchak was unfamiliar with combat on land and gave the majority of the strategic planning to D. A.

They withdrew from the conflict in October 1918 but remained a presence ; their foreign adviser Maurice Janin regarded Kolchak as an instrument of the British and was pro-SR. Kolchak could not count on Japanese aid either ; the Japanese feared he would interfere with their occupation of Far Eastern Russia and refused him assistance, creating a buffer state to the east of Lake Baikal under Cossack control.

Ultimately, the British Foreign Office decided that Kolchak could do more for the Allied cause by toppling Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks and bringing Russia back into the war on the Allied side.

When the Red forces managed to reorganise and turn the attack against Kolchak, from 1919 he quickly lost ground.

Kolchak failed to convince potentially friendly Finland join with him against the Bolsheviks.

Japan and the United States sent forces to Siberia to bolster the armies of the White Movement leader Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak against the Bolshevik Red Army.

During the Russian Civil War he commanded a cavalry squadron of the Kargopolsky Red Guards Cavalry Detachment in the campaigns against the White Guard armies of Aleksandr Kolchak in the Urals.

After involving himself in the unsuccessful mutiny of Esers against Kolchak ( 17 November 1919 ) he escaped from Siberia and took ship to Europe.

In 1918 and 1919 Velidi's Bashkir troops first fought under Ataman Alexander Dutov, then under Admiral Kolchak against Bolshevik forces.

Kolchak took part in the rebuilding of the Imperial Russian Navy, which had been almost completely destroyed during the war.

Kolchak ’ s government issued a decree on 3 December 1918 stating, “ In order to preserve the system and rule of the Supreme Ruler, articles of the criminal code of Imperial Russia were revised, Articles 99 and 100 of which established capital punishment for assassination attempts on the Supreme Ruler and for attempting to overthrow his government.

Imperial insigne: The Kolchak Government in Russia.

Kolchak acknowledged all of Russia's debts, returned factories and plants to their owners, granted concessions to foreign investors, dispersed trade unions, persecuted Marxists, and disbanded the soviets.

* The second period: January – November 1919, featured the White armies ' successful advances, from the south, under Gen. Anton Denikin, from the east, under Gen. Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, and from the northwest, under Gen. Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, that defeated the Red Army on each front.

Chris Carter listed television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker as his major influences for the show.

Kolchak had returned to Omsk on November 16 from an inspection tour.

Kolchak also came under threat from other quarters: local opponents began to agitate and international support began to wane, with even the British turning more towards Denikin.

Despite the arrival of a contrary order from Moscow, Admiral Kolchak was sentenced to death along with his Prime Minister, Viktor Pepelyayev.

Admiral Kolchak was not successful from the time of his taking the position of Supreme Ruler until his death, though it must be borne in mind that he operated under very difficult circumstances.

Monuments dedicated to Kolchak were built in Saint Petersburg in 2002 and in Irkutsk in 2004, despite objections from some former Communist and left-wing politicians and former Soviet army veterans.

To give just two examples: the heroine Geneviève Dieudonné is recycled from Newman's own Warhammer novels ( first appearing in 1989 Drachenfels, written under the name Jack Yeovil ), and Carl Kolchak has a brief cameo as a reporter following the Ripper case.

Carter's new series would take its stylistic inspiration from Kolchak, while thematically reflecting his experiences growing up during the Watergate scandal.

However, after Admiral Kolchak was installed as " Supreme Leader ," of the White Movement in November 1918, he expelled all Marxists from the ranks.

The Bolshevik Defence Commissar Leon Trotsky gave Tukhachevsky command of the 5th Army in 1919, and he led the campaign to capture Siberia from the anti-communist White forces of Aleksandr Kolchak.

In June 1920, America and its allied coalition partners withdrew from Vladivostok after the capture and execution of White Army leader Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak by the Red Army.

Inspiration was also taken from Carter's memories of watching Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The Twilight Zone in his youth ; as well as from the then-recently released film The Silence of the Lambs, which was the impetus for framing the series around agents from the FBI, in order to provide the characters with a more plausible reason for being involved in each case than Carter believed was present in Kolchak.