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Georgy Polkovnikov
Georgy Petrovich Polkovnikov (March 7, 1883, Stanitsa Krivyanskaya, Don Host Oblast – March 1918) was a Russian military leader, commander–in–chief of the Petrograd Military District in September – October 1917, his last military rank was colonel. Biography Born into the family of a Cossack officer. Graduated from the Mikhailovskoye Artillery School (1904). Member of the Russo-Japanese War. In 1912, he graduated from the Academy of the General Staff. After graduating from the academy, he commanded a hundred in the 12th Don Cossack Regiment. During World War I, he served at the headquarters of the 11th Cavalry Division of the 5th Cavalry Corps, and then in the Ussuri Cavalry Division. On March 1, 1916, he was awarded the Order of Saint George, 4th Degree for the distinction in battles. From February 1917 – Chief of Staff of the Ussuri Cavalry Division. Since July 1917, he commanded the 1st Amur Cossack Regiment of the 3rd Cavalry Corps of General Alexander Krymov. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Host Oblast
The Province (Oblast) of the Don Cossack Host (, ''Oblast’ Voyska Donskogo'') of Imperial Russia was the official name of the territory of Don Cossacks, coinciding approximately with the present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia. Its site of administration was Cherkassk, relocated later to Novocherkassk. The province comprised the areas where the Don Cossack Host settled in the Russian Empire. From 1786 the territory was officially named the Lands of the Host of the Don (), renamed Don Host Province in 1870. During 1913, the oblast, with an area of about 165,000 km², had about 3.8 million inhabitants. Of these, 55% (2.1 million) were Cossacks in possession of all the land; the remaining 45% of the population being townsfolk and agricultural guest labourers from other parts of Russia. This subdivision was abolished in 1920; from the major part of it the Don Oblast of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, RSFSR was created, which was incorporated into the North Cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)
The 3rd Cavalry Corps (Russian, 3-й кавалерийский корпус) was a cavalry corps in the Imperial Russian Army. Composition * 10th Cavalry Division * 1st Don Cossack Division * 2nd Combined Cossack Division (1915–1916) * 12th Cavalry Division (1916–1917) Part of * 4th Army: 1914–1915 * 9th Army: 1915 * 6th Army: 1915 *4th Army: 1916–1917 * 11th Army: 1917 * 1st Army: 1917 Commanders *General F. A. Keller: 1915–1917 *Lieutenant General Aleksandr Krymov: 1917 *Lieutenant General N. L. Junakov: 1917 *Major General Pyotr Krasnov Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov ( rus, Пётр Николаевич Краснов; 22 September (old style: 10 September) 1869 – 17 January 1947), sometimes referred to in English as Peter Krasnov, was a Don Cossack historian and officer, promot ...: 1917 References * A. K. Zalesskij ''I mirowaja wojna. Prawitieli i wojennaczalniki.'' Wyd. WECZE Moskwa 2000. {{Russia-mil-stub Corps of the Russian Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet (council)
Soviets (singular: soviet; rus, сове́т, sovét, , literally "council" in English) were Political organisation, political organizations and governmental bodies of the former Russian Empire, primarily associated with the Russian Revolution, which gave the name to the latter state of the Soviet Union. Soviets were the main form of government in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, Makhnovshchina, Free Territory, and to a much lesser extent were active in the Russian Provisional Government. It also can mean any workers' council that is Socialism, socialist such as the Irish soviets. Soviets do not inherently need to adhere to the ideology of the later Soviet Union. Etymology "Soviet" is derived from a Russian language, Russian word meaning council, assembly, advice, harmony, or concord, uk, рада (''rada''); pl, rada; be, савет; uz, совет; kk, совет/кеңес; ka, საბჭო; az, совет; lt, taryba; ro, soviet (Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Krasnov
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov ( rus, Пётр Николаевич Краснов; 22 September (old style: 10 September) 1869 – 17 January 1947), sometimes referred to in English as Peter Krasnov, was a Don Cossack historian and officer, promoted to Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917, one of the leaders of the counter-revolutionary White movement afterwards and a Nazi collaborator who mobilized Cossack forces to fight against the Soviet Union during World War II. Krasnov was also a prominent figure in the White Terror. He presided over the executions and exiling of tens of thousands of "Red" Cossacks. Russian Army Pyotr Krasnov was born on 22 September 1869 (old style: 10 September) in Saint Petersburg, son to lieutenant-general Nikolay Krasnov and grandson to general Ivan Krasnov. In 1888 Krasnov graduated from Pavlovsk Military School; he later served in the Ataman regiment of the Life Guards of the Imperial Russian Army. In Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Tribunal (Russia)
Revolutionary tribunals (commonly abbreviated as revtribunals) in Soviet Russia were established soon after the October Revolution by the Soviet "Decree of the Soviet of Peoples' Commissars Concerning the Courts No. 1" ("Декрет о суде № 1") of November 22 ( N.S.: December 5), 1917. History The 1917 decree proclaimed that the workers' and peasants' revolutionary tribunals were established "for the purpose of the struggle against counter-revolutionary forces and defend the revolution, as well as to struggle against marauders, and profiteers, sabotage and other abuses by merchants, industrialists, clerks and others". The term was borrowed from the Revolutionary Tribunal of the French Revolution. The first trial was that of Provisional Government functionary Sofia Panina. When the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) was established in the next month, its functions included handing accused persons over to revtribunals. On September 2, 1918, on the basis of a resolution o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Republic
__NOTOC__ The Don Republic (russian: Донская Республика, later known as the Almighty Don Host, or russian: Всевеликое Войско Донское, ''Vsevelikoye Voysko Donskoye'') was an independent self-proclaimed anti-Bolshevik republic formed by the Armed Forces of South Russia on the territory of Don Cossacks against another self-proclaimed Don Soviet Republic. The Don Republic existed during the Russian Civil War after the collapse of the Russian Empire from 1918 to 1920." In April 1918, after the liberation of Novocherkassk from control of the Don Soviet Republic, a Don Provisional Government was formed under G. P. Ianov. On 11 May, the "krug for the Salvation of the Don" opened, which organized the anti-Bolshevik war. On 16 May, Krasnov was elected Ataman. On 17 May, Krasnov presented his "Basic Laws of The All Great Don ''voisko''." Its 50 points included the inviolability of private property and abolished all laws promulgated since the abdicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junker Mutiny
, partof = October Revolution , image = File:Vladimir Junker Military School 1916.jpg , caption = Junkers of Vladimir Academy in 1916. The cadets opposed the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks. , date = , place = Petrograd, Russian SR , coordinates = , map_type = , latitude = , longitude = , map_size = , map_caption = , map_label = , territory = , result = Mutiny failedBolsheviks remain in power , status = , combatant1 = Committee for the Salvation of the Motherland and Revolution * Junkers , combatant2 = Russian Soviet Republic * Red Guards , combatant3 = , commander1 = Georgi Polkovnikov Aleksandr Bruderer Vladimir Purishkevich , commander2 = Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky , commander3 = , strength1 = ≈ 830 menA few armored cars , strength2 = Uncertain , strength3 = , casualties1 = , casualties2 = , casualties3 = , notes = The Junker mutiny (russian: Юнк ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committee For The Salvation Of The Homeland And Revolution
The Committee for the Salvation of the Homeland and the Revolution was a brief counterrevolutionary organ created in Petrograd on the night of November 7–8, 1917, during the storming of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks, after the procession participants returned to the building of the City Duma to help the revolutionary government besieged in their residence in order to fight against the Bolsheviks. The Committee included representatives of the Petrograd City Council, the Pre-Parliament, the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of the First Convocation, the executive committee of the All–Russian Council of Peasant Deputies, the Central Executive Committee of the Navy, the Central Committees of the Menshevik, Socialist Revolutionary, "People's Socialist", Constitutional Democratic parties, the postal–telegraph and railway unions, factions of the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, who left the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets and others. The right–w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaques Bagratuni
Prince Jaques Bagratuni (, ; 25 August 1879 – 23 December 1943) was an Armenian prince and military commander. He was a Major General of the Russian Empire and First Republic of Armenia during World War I, and later became the Ambassador of Armenia to England. Early life Jaques Bagratuni was born on 25 August 1879 in Akhaltsikhe, Russian Empire to a noble family. His family is descended from the Bagratuni dynasty of former kings of Armenia in the Middle Ages. He graduated from the Tiflis gymnasium in 1898 with honors, from the Kiev Military School in 1900, and from the Nicholas General Staff Academy in 1907. Military career Bagratuni served as an officer in Warsaw and successfully completed an important task in the intelligence of Persia. He became a lieutenant in 1904 and that same year he entered the Academy of the General Staff, but in early 1905 his teaching was interrupted and he went to the front of the Russian-Japanese War. Bagratuni commanded a company in the 19th Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Revolutionary Committee
The Military Revolutionary Committee (russian: Военно-революционный комитет, ) was the name for military organs created by the Bolsheviks under the soviets in preparation for the October Revolution (October 1917 – March 1918).Military Revolutionary Committees . The committees were powerful directing bodies of revolt, installing and securing the Soviet power. They executed a role of provisional extraordinary organs of power. The most notable ones were those of the |
October Revolution
The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It was the second revolutionary change of government in Russia in 1917. It took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) on . It was the precipitating event of the Russian Civil War. The October Revolution followed and capitalized on the February Revolution earlier that year, which had overthrown the Tsarist autocracy, resulting in a liberal provisional government. The provisional government had taken power after being proclaimed by Grand Duke Michael, Tsar Nicholas II's younger brother, who declined to take power after the Tsar stepped down. During this time, urban workers began to organize into councils (soviets) wherein revolutionaries criticized the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Front (Russian Empire)
The Northern Front (russian: Северный фронт) was an army group of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War I. It was responsible for carrying out operations against the Central Powers along a front line that stretched 280 kilometers, from Riga in the north down to northern Belarus. It was established in August 1915 when the Northwestern Front was split into the Northern and Western Front following the Great Retreat, and existed until the demobilization of the Russian army in 1918 due to the unrest from the Russian Revolution. In 1917 it had a total troop strength of 1.4 million men.Северный фронт . Ria1914.info. Retrieved 19 November 2017. Armies of the Northern Front The following |
