Ivan Ivanovich Krasnov russian: Краснов, Иван Иванович (1802–1871) was a Russian general and author.
Military career
He was born in 1802, grandson to the general
Ivan Kuzmich Krasnov (1752–1812), fellow-fighter of
Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Суво́ров, Aleksándr Vasíl'yevich Suvórov; or 1730) was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Râmnicu Sărat, Rymnik, C ...
and
Matvey Platov. Ivan Ivanovich Krasnov was educated at the boarding-school by
Kharkov University. He began military service in 1816 at the Life Guards of the Cossacks Regiment. Three years later, he was promoted to the rank of
aide-de-camp to
Vasily Orlov-Denisov, commander of the 2nd Cavalry Corps. He participated at the
Russo-Turkish War
The Russo-Turkish wars (or Ottoman–Russian wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European histo ...
, 1828–1829, and subdued the Polish rebels during the
November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution,
was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...
in 1831. Afterwards, he returned home to the
Don Voisko Province
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 adm ...
.
In 1838, Ivan Krasnov was elected the director of the board of the
Don Cossack Voisko and assistant to the
Ataman
Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; Russian: атаман, uk, отаман) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military command ...
for civil affairs. In 1841–1842 he served as Cossack field chieftain of Don Cossack Voisko regiments in the
Caucasus
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and wrote the book ''Notes on the War in Caucasus'' (''Записки о кавказской войне''). In 1843–1848 he commanded the Life Guards of the Cossacks regiment. During
Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
Krasnov served in the rank of field chieftain (ataman) of Don Cossack Voisko regiments within the Crimean Army, and organized the defense of the city of
Taganrog
Taganrog ( rus, Таганрог, p=təɡɐnˈrok) is a port city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the north shore of the Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population:
History of Taganrog
Th ...
during the
Siege of Taganrog in 1855. In 1856 he was appointed general of the 4th military district of Don Voisko.
Literary activity
After the end of Crimean War, Ivan Ivanovich Krasnov returned to his social activities. He regularly published several articles in ''Don Voisko News'' (''Донские Войсковые Ведомости''), ''Military Review'' (''Военный сборник'') and other periodicals. His most important articles dedicated to Don Voisko are:
* ''On the Service of Don Cossacks'' (''О донской казачьей службе'') published in ''Military Review'' (''Военный сборник'') 1858 number 2
* ''Don Cossacks Up-River and in the Lower Don'' (''Низовые и верховые донские казаки'') published in ''Military Review'' (''Военный сборник'') 1858 number 2
* ''Ukrainian on the Don'', ''Parties on the Don'', ''On the Service of Cossacks'', ''Don People on Caucasus'' in ''Military Review'' (''Военный сборник'') 1861 number 9
* ''Defense of Taganrog and Azov Sea Coast in 1855'' (Saint Petersburg, 1862);
* ''Nationalities within the Don Cossack Voisko'' and ''Local patriotism in the Don Cossack Voisko'' in ''Modern Chronicle'' (''Современная летопись''), 1865 number 16
* ''In Response to the Proposal on Formation of Cossack Regiments'' in ''Military Review'' (''Военный сборник'') 1865 number 11.
The most interesting work in terms of historical importance would be his ''Notes of the War in Caucasus'', providing materials on the history of the Life Guards of the Cossack regiment. Ivan I. Krasnov started his literary activity with poems, such as ''Quiet Flows the Don'', ''Prince Vasil'ko'' and more.
See also
*
Nikolay Krasnov
*
Siege of Taganrog
External links and references
*
* ''Taganrog Encyclopaedia'', Taganrog, 2002
* ''History of Taganrog'' by Pavel Filevsky, Moscow, 1898
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krasnov, Ivan
1802 births
1871 deaths
Don Cossacks
Imperial Russian Army generals
Russian military personnel of the Crimean War
Russian people of the November Uprising