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Sergey Semyonovich Khabalov (; 21 April May1858 — 1924) was a
Khabalov was born in the
Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class (1890)
* Order of St. Anna, 2rd class (1883)
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Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1901)
* Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (1906)
* Order of St. Anna, 1st class (8.11.1910)
* Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class (1914)
*
Order of the White Eagle (1916)
Order of the Crown (15.2.?, Romania)
*{{flag, Empire of Japan
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Order of the Sacred Treasure, ''Grand Cordan Class'' (3.6.1914, Japan)
Russian
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general of Ossetian origin and the commander of the Petrograd military district in 1917.
Biography
Khabalov was born in the Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
, and was of Ossetian origin. After He graduated from the Mikhailovskoye Artillery School in 1878, he participated in 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 ...
. In 1886, he graduated from the Nikolayev Academy of General Staff, after which he held several different positions. He served in the Imperial Guards from 1886–1900. From 1903 to 1914, he became the head of several military schools. From 1903 to 1905, Colonel
Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations.
In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge o ...
Khabalov was the head of the Moscow Military School, from 1905 to 1914, was the head of the Pavlov Military School. In 1914, he was appointed military governor
A military government is generally any form of government that is administered by military forces, whether or not this government is legal under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue, and whether this government is formed by natives or by an occup ...
and commander of the Ural Oblast
The Ural Oblast (russian: Уральская область) was an oblast of the RSFSR within the USSR. It was created November 3, 1923 by the merger of Perm, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Tyumen Governorates. The capital of the oblast was Sv ...
, as well as the ataman of the Ural Cossacks Host. In 1916, he was appointed chief officer of the Petrograd Military District
The Petersburg Military District (Питербургский вое́нный о́круг) was a Military District of the Russian Empire originally created in August 1864 following Order B-228 of Dmitry Milyutin, the Minister of War of the Russia ...
, and commander in 1917.
February Revolution
On 13 June 1916, General Khabalov was recalled to the capital and during the February Revolution, on 24 February 1917, appointed as commander-in-chief of thePetrograd Military District
The Petersburg Military District (Питербургский вое́нный о́круг) was a Military District of the Russian Empire originally created in August 1864 following Order B-228 of Dmitry Milyutin, the Minister of War of the Russia ...
, and was given full power. Most of the troops refused to obey him and Khabalov fully lost control of the army units. In ''The Red Wheel, March 1917'', Aleksandr 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 repres ...
considers him to be "incapable and overwhelmed".Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1986, 2008 Eng. trans.). The Red Wheel, March 1917, Node III, Book 1. (p.647). University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana He was arrested on the 28th and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress and in Summer questioned by the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry for the Investigation of Illegal Acts by Ministers and Other Responsible Persons of the Czarist Regime.
Exile and death
In 1919 he went to the South of Russia. On 1 March, 1920, he was evacuated from Novorossiysk toThessaloniki
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. He died in Thessaloniki in an American hospital in 1924.
Honours and awards
Domestic
* 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 ...
, 3rd class (1883)
* Order of St. Anna
The Imperial Order of Saint Anna (russian: Орден Святой Анны; also "Order of Saint Anne" or "Order of Saint Ann") was a Holstein ducal and then Russian imperial order of chivalry. It was established by Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holst ...
, 3rd class (1887)
* Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class (1890)
* Order of St. Anna, 2rd class (1883)
* 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 II in memory of the deeds of Saint Vladimir, the Grand Prince and the Baptize ...
, 4th class (1895)
* Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1901)
* Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (1906)
* Order of St. Anna, 1st class (8.11.1910)
* Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class (1914)
* Order of the White Eagle (1916)
Foreign
* ** Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
, ''Officer’s Cross'' (12.10.1897, France)
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** Order of the Crown (15.2.?, Romania)
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** Order of the Sacred Treasure, ''Grand Cordan Class'' (3.6.1914, Japan)
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