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The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. You can imagine what it's like interacting with such people...

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He also features in the back story of one of the characters in the Laundry Files

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLaundry...

Yess! I'm currently reading The Fuller Memorandum and it's wild finding this today.

I knew I'd heard that name before.

That's how I learned about him.

Ungern features as a prominent persona in Victor Pelevin's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_and_Void - so any Russian-reading person who read this (one of the most famous) works of Pelevin at least heard the name (though Pelevin's Ungern, of course, has as little to do with the real-life prototype as the rest of the people featured in this work, specifically very little). But for some it prompted further inquiry into the biography of this very, very un-ordinary man.

Or comic book readers and watchers of its adaptation, like the OP here I noticed: http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-diversion-c...

Depicted as the mad man he is in the Corto Maltese comic taking place in Siberia

>The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players.

https://www.google.com/search?q=corto+maltese+ungern+sternbe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhtB7VYXdqY&t=38s

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