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In 1902 however, another letter from the General Staff Academy reached him, finally giving him the permission to enlist as an officer at the General Staff headquarters. In 1900, Denikin returned to rural Poland, serving in his old artillery brigade. Therefore, in the end, the complaint was rejected, and Denikin was not assigned to the General Staff "for his character". He protested the decision to the highest court, which however tried to hush up the case, and Denikin was asked to withdraw the complaint and instead write a petition for mercy - which he declined. However, to Denikin's misfortune, the Academy decided to introduce a new system of calculating grades and as a result he was not offered a staff appointment after the final exams. Petersburg, where he passed the competitive examination to the Nikolayev Academy of the General Staff and soon after began his studies there.He would graduate in 1899. In the summer of 1895, after several years of preparation, he went to St. The twenty-year-old Denikin joined an artillery brigade in Congress Poland, in which he served for three years. In 1890 he enrolled at the Kiev Junker School, a military college from which he graduated in 1892. His father's Russian patriotism and devotion to the Russian Orthodox religion eventually led Anton Denikin to the Russian army. Anton Denikin at this time began tutoring younger schoolmates to financially support the family He was fluent in both Russian and Polish and showed great interest in mathematics. The Denikins lived very close to poverty, with the retired major's small pension as their only source of income, and their finances worsened after Ivan's death in 1885.

Ironically, Denikin's humble origins made him more proletarian than most of the Bolshevik leaders he would fight over 40 years later during the Russian Civil War. His mother, of Polish origins, descended from a family of impoverished local landowners. His father, a former serf, had served in the army for over 35 years, fighting during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Crimean War and the various Polish uprisings.