Dmitry Frolovich Semenov ( February 2, 1871 , Transbaikalia - after 1946 , Vladimir , RSFSR , USSR ) - Lieutenant General ( 1919 ), participant in the Russo-Japanese War and the Civil War in the Far East , an active politician of Russian emigration in China; second cousin of the chieftain G.M.Semyonov .
| Dmitry Frolovich Semenov | ||||||||
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| Date of Birth | February 2, 1871 | |||||||
| Place of Birth | Transbaikal region | |||||||
| Date of death | after 1946 | |||||||
| Place of death | Vladimir | |||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empireβ White movement | |||||||
| Rank | lieutenant general | |||||||
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In royal service
He entered the service on October 11, 1889 . He graduated from the Irkutsk Infantry Junker School on September 1, 1893, and a khorunzhim was enrolled in the 1st cavalry regiment of the Transbaikal Cossack army. He participated in the suppression of the uprising in China ( 1900 - 1901 ). Veteran of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 , where on January 14, 1905 he was awarded the title of Esaul for military distinctions. He took an active part in the First World War . December 6, 1913 he was awarded the rank of colonel. In 1917, he was the commander of the 3rd Trans-Baikal Cossack Brigade, and from June 3, 1917, Major General.
At the service of Ataman Semenov
In 1918, he supported the rise to power of the ataman G. M. Semenov in the Trans-Baikal Republic .
From September 14, 1918 to December 1918, the Head of the Trans-Baikal (later 1st Trans-Baikal) Cossack Division (September 14, 1918 - January 1919), the military garrison of the city of Chita (from September 27, 1918) and the 1st military district as part of 5th Amur Corps (from October 19, 1918). From December 8, 1918 to June 18, 1919, with the rank of lieutenant general (January 4, 1919) he was commander of the 1st Eastern Cossack Corps as part of the Ataman G.M.Semenov, Separate East Siberian Army.
After Kolchakβs defeat, the Assistant Commander of the Troops, then the Commander of the troops of the Trans-Baikal Military District (December 24, 1919 - January 31, 1920) and the Commissioner for the Protection of Public Order and Public Peace in the Trans-Baikal Region (from December 25, 1919). From February 12, 1920 he commanded the troops of the Transbaikal Front, from February 27, 1920 - the Eastern Group, from March 10 to July 23, 1920 he was commander of the 1st Transbaikal Corps of the Far Eastern Army . Since July 27, 1920 - General for errands under the Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces and the marching chieftain of all Cossack troops of the Russian Eastern Outskirts G. M. Semenov.
Emigration
Since November 1920 , an emigrant. Chairman of the Dairen Bureau for Russian Emigrants, ataman of the Dairen village. Arrested on October 31, 1945 in Dairen , deported to the USSR . By a special meeting at the Ministry of State Security of the USSR of November 30, 1946, at the age of 75, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, kept in Vladimir prison, where he died.
Rehabilitated December 20, 2002
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. with swords and bow (1900)
- Order of St. Anne 3rd Art. with swords and bow (1901)
- Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd Art. with swords (1904)
- Order of St. Anne, 2nd Art. with swords (1904)
- golden weapon (1904)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th Art. with swords and bow (1905).
Links
- Semenov, Dmitry Frolovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Volkov E.V. , Egorov N.D., Kuptsov I.V. White White Generals of the Eastern Front of the Civil War: Biographical Handbook. - M.: Russian Way , 2003. - ISBN 5-85887-169-0