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26th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
The 26th Infantry Division (russian: 26-я пехотная дивизия, ''26-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army. Organization *1st Brigade **101st Infantry Regiment **102nd Infantry Regiment *2nd Brigade **103rd Infantry Regiment **104th Infantry Regiment *26th Artillery Brigade Commanders *August 15, 1863 - July 21, 1866 - Major General (from March 27, 1866 Lieutenant General) Alexander Semyonovich Kovalevsky *July 21, 1866 - xx.xx, 1869 - Major General (from August 30, 1867 Lieutenant General) Viktor Danilovich Krenke *05/02, 1869 - xx.08, 1878 - Major General (from March 28, 1871 Lieutenant General) Baron Eduard Karlovich Dellingshausen *хх.хх.1878 - March 14, 1879 - Lieutenant-General Andrey Davidovich Gorshkov *03/14/1879 - 01/20, 1888 - Major General (from 04/12/1881 Lieutenant General) Nikolai Nikolayevich Malakhov *01/20/1888 - 01/01, 1898 - Major General (from 08/30/1888 Lieutenant General) Prince Shcherbatov, Alexander P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesser Coat Of Arms Of Russian Empire
Lesser, from Eliezer (, "Help/Court of my God"), is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolf Lesser (1851–1926), German physician * Aleksander Lesser (1814–1884), Polish painter and art critic * Anton Lesser (born 1952), British actor * Axel Lesser (born 1946), East German cross country skier * Edmund Lesser (1852–1918), German dermatologist * Erik Lesser (born 1988), German biathlete * Gabriele Lesser (born 1960), German historian and journalist * George Lesser, American musician * Gerald S. Lesser (1926–2010), American psychologist * Henry Lesser (born 1963), German footballer * J Lesser (born 1970), American musician * Len Lesser (1922–2011), American actor * Louis Lesser (born 1916), American real estate developer * Matt Lesser, Connecticut politician * Mike Lesser (born 1943), British mathematical philosopher and political activist * Milton Lesser or Stephen Marlowe (1928–2008), American author * Norman Lesser (1902–1985), Anglican bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Imperial Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). Precursors: Regiments of the New Order Russian tsars before Peter the Great maintained professional hereditary musketeer corps known as '' streltsy''. These were originally raised by Ivan the Terrible; originally an effective force, they had become highly unreliable and undisciplined. In times of war the armed forces were augmented by peasants. The regiments of the new order, or regiments of the foreign order (''Полки нового строя'' or ''Полки иноземного строя'', ''Polki novovo (inozemnovo) stroya''), was the Russian term that was used to describe military units that were formed in the Tsardom of Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infantry
Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and marine infantry. Although disused in modern times, heavy infantry also commonly made up the bulk of many historic armies. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery have traditionally made up the core of the combat arms professions of various armies, with the infantry almost always comprising the largest portion of these forces. Etymology and terminology In English, use of the term ''infantry'' began about the 1570s, describing soldiers who march and fight on foot. The word derives from Middle French ''infanterie'', from older Italian (also Spanish) ''infanteria'' (foot soldiers too inexperienced for cavalry), from Latin '' īnfāns'' (without speech, newborn, foolish), from which English also gets '' infant''. The individual-soldier term ''infantry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infantry
Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and marine infantry. Although disused in modern times, heavy infantry also commonly made up the bulk of many historic armies. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery have traditionally made up the core of the combat arms professions of various armies, with the infantry almost always comprising the largest portion of these forces. Etymology and terminology In English, use of the term ''infantry'' began about the 1570s, describing soldiers who march and fight on foot. The word derives from Middle French ''infanterie'', from older Italian (also Spanish) ''infanteria'' (foot soldiers too inexperienced for cavalry), from Latin '' īnfāns'' (without speech, newborn, foolish), from which English also gets '' infant''. The individual-soldier term ''infantry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Semyonovich Kovalevsky
Alexander Semyonovich Kovalevsky (August 23, 1807 – February 15/27, 1877) was Russian Lieutenant General, participant in the Caucasus campaigns and the Crimean War, military lawyer, chairman of the Kharkiv Military District Court. Born on August 23, 1807. Educated in the 3rd cadet corps, from which he was released on June 25, 1827 as an ensign in the cavalry artillery company No. 14. In 1831 he took part in the campaign against the rebellious Poles. Since 1844, being a captain, he commanded a light horse-drawn No. 18 battery. On February 18, 1852, promoted to Polkovnik, commanded a horse-artillery light No. 25 battery. From 1853 he served in the Caucasus and took part in campaigns against the mountaineers. On November 26, 1853, he was awarded the Order of St. George, 4th class (No. 9076 according to the Grigorovich-Stepanov knight list). In 1854–1855, in the ranks of the Caucasian army, he fought against the Turks in Transcaucasia. He commanded a lightweight cavalry artillery b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Danilovich Krenke
Viktor Danilovich Krenke (13 June 1816 - 31 May 1893) - military engineer, participant in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), lieutenant general, writer in the field of agriculture. Biography Born on 13 June 1816, he came from the nobility of the Novgorod province. A pupil of the Pavlovsk cadet corps, from which he was released in 1834 into the Grenadier engineer battalion, where he was until 1850, and then was at the disposal of the chief of engineers of the Guards and Grenadier corps.Already at the beginning of his service, Krenke drew attention to himself by tireless activity and management during the performance of the work entrusted to him and has repeatedly been honored with the personal highest favors. In 1855, Krenke was appointed commander of a training sapper battalion and at the same time was sent to supervise the work on putting the Vyborg fortress into a defensive position on the occasion of the Eastern War. On 22 July 1860 he was promoted to major general and appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Karlovich Dellingshausen
Baron Eduard Karlovich Dellinghausen (5 August 1824 - 14 November 1888) - baron, Russian general, participant in the Caucasian War and the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78). Biography Descended from the nobility of the Estland Governorate. Marine service He graduated from the course in the Naval Cadet Corps in December 1841 and was promoted to warrant officer with an appointment to the 25th naval crew, but then left to attend the course in the officer classes of the naval corps. At the end of the course until March 1846 he was in the carriage, and in March, due to illness, he was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant. Army service The naval service did not appeal to the young officer - and the same 1846, in September, finds him already an ensign of the Tenginsky infantry regiment with the appointment of an adjutant to the former chief of the main headquarters of the Caucasian army, Adjutant General Kotzebue. Caucasian War Already in January 1847 he took part in an expedition to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Davidovich Gorshkov
Andrey, Andrej or Andrei (in Cyrillic script: Андрей, Андреј or Андрэй) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: *Andrei of Polotsk ( – 1399), Lithuanian nobleman *Andrei Alexandrescu, Romanian computer programmer *Andrey Amador, Costa Rican cyclist *Andrei Arlovski, Belarusian mixed martial artist *Andrey Arshavin, Russian football player * Andrej Babiš, Czech prime minister *Andrey Belousov (born 1959), Russian politician *Andrey Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist *Andrey Borodin, Russian financial expert and businessman *Andrei Chikatilo, prolific and cannibalistic Russian serial killer and rapist *Andrei Denisov (weightlifter) (born 1963), Israeli Olympic weightlifter *Andrey Ershov, Russian computer scientist *Andrey Esionov, Russian painter *Andrei Glavina, Istro-Romanian writer and politician *Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), Belarusian Soviet politician and diplomat * Andrey Ivanov, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Nikolayevich Malakhov
Nikolai Nikolayevich Malakhov (18274 April 1908) was a Russian military leader and general of infantry (1895). Biography Malakhov was born on 6 (18) May 1827 (in the Petersburg necropolis - 1826) in Arkhangelsk, in the family of the manager of the customs. His mother was ES Tagaychikova, daughter of the provincial secretary of the Galich district of the Kostroma province. He was baptised on 14 May 1827 in the Orthodox Archangel Cathedral. Chronological track record 1846 - Graduated from the School of Guards Ensigns and Cavalry Junkers in the 1st category and graduated from non-commissioned officers as an ensign in the Jaeger Life Guards Regiment. на сайте . 6 December 1848 - Second Lieutenant, assigned to the School of Guards Ensigns and Cavalry Junkers for testing as a company officer. Upon graduation, he was promoted to a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Ogorodnikov
Fyodor Evlampievich Ogorodnikov (June 16, 1867 – March 3, 1939) was a Russian and Soviet military activist and historian. Lieutenant General (1916). Komdiv (1935). Biography The son of the ethnography and Statistics E. C. Ogorodnikov. He graduated from the Alexander Cadet Corps and the Nikolayev Engineering School (1887). From the school, Lieutenant was released to the Grenadier Bomb Battalion. He was later transferred to the LEJB Guard bomb; the battalion with the same office and seniority. Lieutenant (Precedence of August 7, 1891). In 1893, he graduated from the General Staff Academy at first level. Senior adjutant at the headquarters of the 1st Grenadier Division (26 November 1893 – 1 February 1898). Cenzovoe command served in the 2nd Grenadjorskom Rostov Regiment (2 October 1895 – 9 October 1896). Stolonachal'nik of the General Directorate of Cossack Troops (February 1, 1898 – July 7, 1899). Lieutenant Colonel (seniority December 6, 1898). Assistant to the Office of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Shorin
Vasily Ivanovich Shorin (russian: Василий Иванович Шорин; 26 December 1870 January 1871 Kalyazin ''–'' 29 June 1938, Leningrad) was a Soviet military commander, who commanded several military units of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Biography He graduated from the Kazan infantry school of the Junkers in 1892. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 he commanded a company, and a battalion at the start of World War I. By June 1916, he was Colonel of the 333rd Infantry Glazovsky Regiment. After the October Revolution, he took the side of the Soviet government. He was elected by the soldiers as commander of the 26th Infantry Division. In September 1918, he was appointed commander of the Second Army of the Eastern Front. Shorin successfully reorganized the army and directed her actions in the Izhevsk-Votkinsk operation in 1918 during the spring offensive of Admiral Kolchak's troops. Since May 1919 he was the commander of the Northern Group of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infantry Divisions Of The Russian Empire
Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and marine infantry. Although disused in modern times, heavy infantry also commonly made up the bulk of many historic armies. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery have traditionally made up the core of the combat arms professions of various armies, with the infantry almost always comprising the largest portion of these forces. Etymology and terminology In English, use of the term ''infantry'' began about the 1570s, describing soldiers who march and fight on foot. The word derives from Middle French ''infanterie'', from older Italian (also Spanish) ''infanteria'' (foot soldiers too inexperienced for cavalry), from Latin '' īnfāns'' (without speech, newborn, foolish), from which English also gets ''infant''. The individual-soldier term ''infantryma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
