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.

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 an absolute supporter of the Allied cause against Imperial Germany and regarded Russia's immediate withdrawal from the conflict as dishonorable.

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.

* 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.

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

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.

The White Army under the command of General Vladimir Kappel advanced toward Irkutsk while Kolchak was interrogated by a commission of five men representing the Revolutionary Committee ( REVKOM ) during nine days between January 21 and February 6.

Note that the White generals such as Kolchak or Denikin are not considered warlords, because they created a legitimate, though ramshackle government and military command.

American policy called for protecting the Trans Siberian Railway, but this was under the control of White Army forces under the command of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, that Eichelberger considered to be " murderers " and " cutthroats ".

After Admiral Kolchak took command ( August 1916 ), the Russian fleet mined the exit from the Bosporus, preventing nearly all Ottoman ships from entering the Black Sea.

It possessed a large fleet based in Sevastopol and it was led by two skilled commanders: Admiral Eberhart and Admiral Kolchak ( who took over in 1916 ).

His many guest appearances included Davy Crockett, Meet McGraw, Hey, Jeannie !, The Donna Reed Show, The Ray Milland Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Monkees, I Love Lucy ( where he played English tutor Percy Livermore and used furniture merchant Dan Jenkins ), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Mister Ed, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Lost in Space, Daniel Boone, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, Gilligan's Island ( as Wrongway Feldman ), Have Gun – Will Travel, Love, American Style, Kolchak, Alice, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, Hogan's Heroes, Match Game, Maverick, What's It For, Fantasy Island, and Quark ( as the voice of " The Source ").

Wrangel insisted instead that his forces should take Tsaritsyn first, to join up with the army of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, which he accomplished on June 30, 1919 after three previous attempts by Pyotr Krasnov had failed in 1918.