MOSCOW, April 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Russian citizenship to Marina Denikina born in the Krasnodar Region (southern Russia) in 1919 and now a resident of France.

According to the Kremlin's spokesman, the president has signed the relevant decree under Section 3 of Article 13 of the federal law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation".

Marina Antonovna Denikina is a daughter of General Denikin.

Czarist General Anton Denikin was born near Warsaw in 1872 and died in 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He fought in the Russian-Japanese War, commanded a division of the Southern Army in WWI and was promoted to lieutenant-general in 1916. Denikin took part in Kornilov's rebellion against the Provisional Government, was arrested, escaped from prison in December 1917 to the Don River and co-founded the White Army.

By late June 1919, Denikin took the Donets Basin and invaded the Ukraine on a wide frontage. Fighting the Red Army units led by Stalin, he suffered a defeat and went to Constantinople in 1920 and then to Paris.

During WWII, Denikin rejected all attempts by Nazis to establish contact with him as a possible leader, who would drum up support of anti-Soviet forces. He had been a patriot of Russia to the very end. With the end of the war, he moved to the United States. Denikin authored the five-volume memoir Russian Turmoil (1921-25), a valuable source of information about the revolution and Russian Civil War.