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Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov (russian: Никола́й Иу́дович Ива́нов, tr. ; 1851 – 27 January 1919) was a
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in the
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.


Family

Ivanov's family origin was debatable, some sources say that Ivanov came from a noble family originated from the
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, but other sources told that he was the son of a
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. Despite all of these sources about his family, the true identity of where his family originated from is still a mystery.


Early life

Ivanov was born on 22 July 1851 (based on the
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at use in the
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at that time), in
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in the
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. He attended the 2nd Cadet Corps and the Pavlovsky Cadet Corps in
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at an early age, and graduated from the
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in 1869, and served in the 3rd Grenadier Guards and artillery brigades. He first saw action during the
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, and was promoted to
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in mid August 1877. After which he subsequently remained in
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to serve as an instructor to the
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. In late July 1884, he was commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Imperial Guards Artillery, and in early April 1890, was appointed commandant of the fortress artillery of
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. In mid-December 1899, he was selected to be an aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Michael. He also participated in the suppression of the
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in China during the beginning of the century, after which he was promoted to
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in early December 1901.


Russo-Japanese War

General Ivanov participated in the
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in 1904, he was appointed to the
1st Manchurian Army The 1st Manchurian Army (russian: 1-я Маньчжурская армия / 1 МА) was a field army of the Russian Empire that was established in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, for the purposes of operating in the Manchuria region against J ...
. In mid-July 1904, he was appointed commander of the Eastern Detachment, after its commander, Lieutenant General
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was killed at the
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, and was later appointed to the
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, and commanded the corps during retreating from
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after the
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ended. Later during the
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, he was ordered to bypass the left flank of the
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and repulse them back to
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. After that, the Japanese retreated due to heavy resistance by the Russians. After that at
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, he distinguished himself during defending against the Japanese. After that brief success of his, he was awarded the
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both the 3rd and the 4th class for military distinction. After the war, he became the commander of the Manchurian Army. In early November 1907, he became the commander of the 1st Army Corps. After that, he was appointed the chief of staff of the city of
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in mid-April of that year, and governor-general in November. Later that same year, he was appointed
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. In mid April 1908, he was promoted to
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; he was also appointed commander-in-chief of the
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later in early December.


World War I

At the beginning of the
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, Ivanov was appointed commander-in-chief of the Southwestern Front. At first, he together with the aged general von Saltza suffered a minor defeat at
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, but success came next when the Russians successfully advanced into
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, with the Russian casualties of about 200,000, the
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having roughly twice the casualties, including thousands of
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. For the huge successes at the front, he was awarded the
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, 1st class with swords, and the Order of St, George of the 2nd degree, being three of the only generals that were awarded this high decoration, the other two generals being General
Nikolai Ruzsky Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky (russian: Никола́й Влади́мирович Ру́зский; – October 18, 1918) was a Imperial Russia, Russian general, member of the state and military councils, best known for his role in World Wa ...
and
Nikolai Yudenich Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich ( – 5 October 1933) was a commander of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. He was a leader of the anti-communist White movement in Northwestern Russia during the Civil War. Biography Early life Yuden ...
. During the
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at the
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, he with his Southwestern Front armies ( 4th Army and the 9th Army), together with the
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commander-in-chief General Ruzsky with his armies ( 2nd Army and the 5th Army) from the North. In the matter of a month, General Ivanov and General Ruzsky's troops successfully repulsed the
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advance, taking about a hundred kilometres of land. Later on, General Ivanov commanded an operation towards
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, it was successful at first, but was later ordered to retreat, ending the initial success. In early 1915, General Ivanov gained approval of the
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to launch an offensive towards
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, but the offensive was disturbed by the Germans in
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. Furthermore, the Austro-German forces launched an
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in southern Poland. During the battle, the Russians suffered casualties up to 350 thousand men, and the Russians were pushed out of Galicia, starting the Russian
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. General Ivanov repeatedly showed examples of poor leadership of the troops and indecisiveness, much like many other Russian generals at that time. Most particularly, he and the General
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(commander of the 3rd Army) didn't make any effort to strengthen the 3rd Army, which the Austro-German forces inflicted the main blow at and nearly wiping the army. Later in June, General Ivanov ordered General Nikolai Khodorovich, commander-in-chief of the Kiev Military District, to take 1 in a 1000 local German civilians as hostages, and imprison them for the rest of the war. General Ivanov also prescribed to requisition that all the German hostages could only have a small portion of food of all the supplies they had got, and the hostages were settled in a highly secured residence. And if any hostages didn't follow the orders, they would be met with
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. Later at the end of 1915, he conducted a failed operation by the 11th Army against the enemy's forces. And in March 1916, he was replaced by General
Aleksei Brusilov Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov ( rus, Алексе́й Алексе́евич Бруси́лов, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ brʊˈsʲiɫəf; – 17 March 1926) was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for the developme ...
as the commander-in-chief of the Southwestern Front, he was then appointed a member of the
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, and was made adjutant to tsar
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himself. General Brusilov recalled that, when he arrived and accepted the post, General Ivanov burst into tears and said that he couldn't understand why he was to be replaced. General Brusilov assumed that it was due to the fact that General Ivanov was too passive, who believed that the front couldn't succeed. General Ivanov, with his loyalty towards the tsar and surprisingly the tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and the mystic
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as well, he enjoyed great confidence and reputation from the royal family. After General
Mikhail Alekseyev Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev (russian: Михаил Васильевич Алексеев) ( – ) was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Between 1915 and 1917 he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Ch ...
was appointed chief of staff to the supreme commander-in-chief in mid 1915, which was the tsar himself, the tsarina wrote a letter to her husband, advising him not to let Alekseyev the only person in charge of the Stavka and advised him to let Ivanov to assist him, saying that: Further actions showed that it was Ivanov was the mastermind behind Alekseyev, who was not trusted by the tsarina. In return, Ivanov was treated very well by Nicholas. Later on, the tsar wrote to his wife: Since September 1915, the tsarina had sent many letters to her husband, exerting pressure on him in order to summon General Ivanov back from the front to be at the post of
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. The tsar later accepted it in March and summoned the general to the headquarters to be the tsar's secondment person. By the end of 1916, the tsarina launched a series of letters against General Alekseyev, Ivanov joined her by informing the situations of the Stavka and reported it to Alekseyev.


February Revolution

On 27 February (12 March) 1917, the
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 somet ...
broke out in Russia, and was centered in
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, the capital. General Alekseyev proposed to send a detachment by its commander with full power, to restore order in the capital. The tsar then ordered to allocate an infantry and cavalry brigade from the
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Fronts, and appointed Ivanov as the head of the general-adjutants and commander-in-chief of the
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, replacing Lieutenant-General Sergei Khabalov. Later on, the tsar ordered him to take command of the St. George Battalion in
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to ensure the royal family's safety. There was also a speech of the Stavka about strengthening the Petrograd Garrison by allocating "strong regiments" from the front back to the capital. Later, when the soldiers and police loyal to the Imperial Government surrendered to the revolutionaries,
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General
Mikhail Belyaev Mikhail Alekseyevich Belyaev (russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Беля́ев; December 23, 18631918) was a Russian general of the Infantry, statesman, Chief of Staff of the Imperial Russian Army from August 1, 1914, to August 10, 1 ...
declared Petrograd a stage of siege, and military operation against the revolutionaries in the capital had begun. General Alekseyev ordered Northern Front commander-in-chief General
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to send Ivanov two infantry and two cavalry regiments, reinforced by a machine-gun team: The Western Front informed General Alekseyev about dispatching the 34th Sevsky and 36th Orlovsky Infantry Regiments, the 2nd Hussar Pavlograd and the 2nd Don Cossack Regiments during February 28 and March 2. The Northern Front singled out the 67th and 68th Infantry Regiments, the 15th Ulansky Tatar and the 3rd Ural Cossack regiments. General Ivanov is described by
Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repress ...
of being reluctant to obey his orders by the Tsar to restore order in Petrograd and he delayed the dispatch of troops assigned to him for this purpose. In any case, “he vanovdid not even reach the city.” Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1986, 2008 Eng. trans.). The Red Wheel, March 1917, Node III, Book 2. (p.682). University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana


Russian Civil War

After the October Revolution, he joined the White movement in southern Russia. In October 1918, he agreed to the invitation of
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to take command of the Southern Army. In the autumn of 1918, it numbered more than 20,000 troops, of which there were about 3,000 at the front. Parts of the army operating in the Voronezh and Tsaritsyn areas suffered heavy losses. In February–March 1919, they were reformed and became part of the 6th Infantry Division of the
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. Nikolai Ivanov died of typhus on 27 January 1919 in Novocherkassk.


Honors

*
Order of St. George The Order of Saint George (russian: Орден Святого Георгия, Orden Svyatogo Georgiya) is the highest military decoration of the Russian Federation. Originally established on 26 November 1769 Julian (7 December 1769 Gregorian) a ...
, 4th class * Order of St. George, 3rd class * Order of St. George, 2nd class *
Order of St Vladimir The Imperial Order of Saint Prince Vladimir (russian: орден Святого Владимира) was an Imperial Russian order established on by Empress Catherine the Great, Catherine II in memory of the deeds of Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev, ...
, 1st class *
Order of St. Stanislaus The Order of Saint Stanislaus ( pl, Order Św. Stanisława Biskupa Męczennika, russian: Орден Святого Станислава), also spelled Stanislas, was a Polish order of knighthood founded in 1765 by King Stanisław August Ponia ...
1st degree * Order of St. Anne 1st degree * ,
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* Order of the White Eagle *
Gold Sword for Bravery The Gold Sword for Bravery (russian: Золотое оружие "За храбрость") was a Russian award for bravery. It was set up with two grades on 27 July 1720 by Peter the Great, reclassified as a public order in 1807 and abolished ...


References


External links


First World War.com — Who's Who — Nikolai Ivanov


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