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Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki
Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki (Iosif Romanovich while in the Russian military; sometimes also Dowbór-Muśnicki; ; 25 October 1867 – 26 October 1937) was a Russian military officer and Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies. He was also the military commander of the Greater Poland Uprising. Early life Dowbor-Muśnicki was born in the Garbów (near Sandomierz) in an estate in the Radom Governorate of Congress Poland, the part of Poland that was then a part of the Russian Empire. His father was Roman Muśnicki, the owner of Garbów, descended from the Lithuanian Dowborów (Daubor) family (Przyjaciel coat of arms), who settled in Sandomierz during the 17th century. Józef was the younger brother of Konstanty, also a lieutenant general. Their mother was Antonina née Wierzbicki. His family traced its roots to medieval Polish nobility of evangelical reformed denomination. Dowbor received his basic education in the Nikolayevskiy Cadet Corps (Saint Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stary Garbów
Stary Garbów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dwikozy, within Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Dwikozy, north of Sandomierz, and east of the regional capital Kielce. The village is the hometown of Zawisza Czarny }), he was revered as a brave knight. A monument to Zawisza at Golubac Fortress bears the inscription: "In Golubac, his life was taken by the Turks in 1428, the famous Polish knight, the symbol of courage and honor, Zawisza the Black. Glory to the ... (c. 1379–1428), a Polish knight and national hero. References Villages in Sandomierz County {{Sandomierz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-determination
The right of a people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law (commonly regarded as a ''jus cogens'' rule), binding, as such, on the United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter's norms. It states that peoples, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference. The concept was first expressed in the 1860s, and spread rapidly thereafter. During and after World War I, the principle was encouraged by both Soviet Premier Vladimir Lenin and United States President Woodrow Wilson. Having announced his Fourteen Points on 8 January 1918, on 11 February 1918 Wilson stated: "National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. 'Self determination' is not a mere phrase; it is an imperative principle of action." During World War II, the princip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Provisional Government
The Russian Provisional Government ( rus, Временное правительство России, Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of the Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II. The intention of the provisional government was the organization of elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly and its convention. The provisional government, led first by Prince Georgy Lvov and then by Alexander Kerensky, lasted approximately eight months, and ceased to exist when the Bolsheviks gained power in the October Revolution in October N.S.">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="ovember, Old Style and New Style dates">N.S.1917. According to Harold Whitmore Williams, the history of the eight months during which Russia was ruled by the Provisional Government was the history of the steady and systematic disorganization of the army. For most of the life of the Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas II Of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. During his reign, Nicholas gave support to the economic and political reforms promoted by his prime ministers, Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin. He advocated modernization based on foreign loans and close ties with France, but resisted giving the new parliament (the Duma) major roles. Ultimately, progress was undermined by Nicholas's commitment to autocratic rule, strong aristocratic opposition and defeats sustained by the Russian military in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. By March 1917, public support for Nicholas had collapsed and he was forced to abdicate the throne, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule of Russia (16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsar
Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East Slavs, East and South Slavs, South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''Caesar (title), caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" in the European medieval sense of the term—a ruler with the same rank as a Roman emperor, holding it by the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch)—but was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to "king". It lends its name to a system of government, tsarist autocracy or tsarism. "Tsar" and its variants were the official titles of the following states: * Bulgarian Empire (First Bulgarian Empire in 681–1018, Second Bulgarian Empire in 1185–1396), and also used in Kingdom of Bulgaria, Tsardom of Bulgaria, in 1908–1946 * Serbian Empire, in 1346–1371 * Tsardom of Russia, in 1547–1721 (replaced in 1721 by ''imperator'' in Russian Empire, but still re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February Revolution
The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg), the then-capital of Russia, where long-standing discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February Old Style (8 March New Style). Revolutionary activity lasted about eight days, involving mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes with police and gendarmes, the last loyal forces of the Russian monarchy. On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.) the forces of the capital's garrison sided with the revolutionaries. Three days later Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
38th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
The 38th Infantry Division (russian: 38-я пехотная дивизия, ''38-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army. Organization *1st Brigade **149th Infantry Regiment **150th Infantry Regiment *2nd Brigade **151st Infantry Regiment **152nd Infantry Regiment *38th Artillery Brigade Commanders *1865-1868: Fyodor Radetzky *1869-1877: Arshak Ter-Gukasov Arshak Ter-Gukasov ( hy, Արշակ Տեր-Ղուկասյան; 1819 – 8 January 1881) was a Lieutenant-General of the Russian Empire. Born to an Armenian family in Tiflis, he started his military career in 1850 and was subsequently involved in th ... *1916-1917: Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki References Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire Military units and formations established in 1865 Military units and formations disestablished in 1918 {{russia-history-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Army (Russian Empire)
The 1st Army (russian: 1-я армия, translit=1А) was an army-level command of the Russian Imperial Army created during World War I. The First Army, commanded by General Paul von Rennenkampf, invaded East Prussia at the outbreak of war in 1914 along with the Second Army commanded by General Alexander Samsonov. After declaring war on the German Empire, the Russian Empire had been able to mobilize very quickly. All Russian forces were put under the command of Grand Duke Nikolai and his Quartermaster General Yuri Danilov. The invading forces made a determined and speedy attack on East Prussia. However, the First and Second Armies were stopped by the German Eighth Army, led by Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his chief of staff, General Erich Ludendorff. The German and Russian armies met at Tannenberg, where the Second Army was encircled and suffered complete destruction. Both the First and Second Armies suffered terrible casualties in one of the most comprehensive G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
The 7th Infantry Division (russian: 7-я пехотная дивизия, ''7-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army that existed in various formations from the early 19th century until the end of World War I and the Russian Revolution. The division was based in Radom and later Voronezh in the years leading up to 1914. It fought in World War I and was demobilized in 1918. Organization Russian infantry divisions consisted of a staff, two infantry brigades, and one artillery brigade. The 7th Infantry Division was part of the 5th Army Corps (Russian Empire), 5th Army Corps. * 1st Brigade (HQ Voronezh): ** 25th Smolensk Infantry Regiment ** 26th Mogilev Infantry Regiment * 2nd Brigade (HQ Tambov): ** 27th Vitebsk Infantry Regiment ** 28th Polotsk Infantry Regiment * 7th Artillery Brigade Chiefs of Staff * 1878-1885: Waldemar Schauman * 1897-1899: Vladislav Klembovsky * 1905: Nikolai Kalachyov * 1909: Vladimir Zheltyshev * 1912-1914: Józef Dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
The 10th Infantry Division (russian: 10-я пехотная дивизия, ''10-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army that existed in various formations from the early 19th century until the end of World War I and the Russian Revolution. The division was based in Warsaw and later Nizhny Novgorod in the years leading up to 1914. It fought in World War I and was demobilized in 1918. Organization The 10th Infantry Division was part of the 5th Army Corps. *1st Brigade (HQ Nizhny Novgorod) ** 37th Yekaterinburg Infantry Regiment ** 38th Tobolsk Infantry Regiment *2nd Brigade (HQ Kozlov): ** 39th Tomsk Infantry Regiment ** 40th Kolyvan Infantry Regiment *10th Artillery Brigade Commanders *1915–1916: Vasily Timofeyvich Gavrilov Vasily Timofeyvich Gavrilov (born 6 March 1867) was division and corps commanderin the military of the Russian Empire. He fought in the war against the Japanese Empire. He was promoted to Polkovnik in 1905 and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Army Corps (Russian Empire)
The 10th Army Corps was an Army corps in the Imperial Russian Army. Composition The 10th Army Corps was composed of the 9th Infantry Division, 31st Infantry Division and the 10th Cavalry Division. Part of * 3rd Army: 1914-1916 * 4th Army: 1916 * 2nd Army: 1916-1917 * 10th Army: 1917 * 9th Army: 1917 Commanders *1876-1878: Semyon Vorontsov *1878-1879: Vasily Fedorovich Rall *1889-1890: Victor Deziderjevitch Dandevill *1890-1901: Victor Fedorovitch Winberg *1901-1904: Kapiton Konstantinovitch Slutchevsky *1904-1905: Konstantin Tserpitsky *1906-1907: Pavel Alexandrovich Layming *1907-1911: Yakov Zhilinsky *1911-1914: Thadeus von Sivers *1914-1916: Nikolai Protopopov Nikolai Ivanovich Protopopov (born 1853) was a Russian military leader. General from Infantry (1916). Hero of the First World War. Member of the Russian-Turkish war. Biography Educated at the Imperial Konstantinovsky land surveying institute. I ... *1916-1917: Nikolai Danilov *1917: Januariusz Cichowicz Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
