[2] During the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) Vasily Baumgarten served in the Vladivostok Fortress, then in 1908–1914 he worked in the city administration of St. Petersburg and he taught at his alma mater as associate professor.

[3] Because of the October Revolution and Russian Civil War in September 1918 Vasily Baumgarten joined the White movement.

In January 1919 he joined the Anton Denikin's Volunteer Army as a procurement manager for engineer units.

[1] In November 1920 Baumgarten evacuated from Sevastopol to Istanbul, Turkey together with the staff of Peter Wrangel's Russian army retreating from Crimea.

[3] There Baumgarten served as a chairman of The Gallipoli Association [ru] in South America and (since 1949) was the leader of the Peter Wrangel's Russian All-Military Union local department.