Klyuyev, Nikolai Alekseevich (general)

Born May 5, 1859 in the family of a college registrar and nobleman Alexei Klyuyev.

He graduated from the St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium.

On August 31, 1877 he entered military service, and in 1879 he graduated from the 1st Pavlovsk Military School (graduated from the ensign in the Life Guards Volyn Regiment ). On August 30, 1883, he was promoted to second lieutenant , and on January 1, 1885, he was promoted to lieutenant .

In 1885, on the 1st level, he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff and was appointed to the Warsaw Military District. March 29, 1885 promoted to the rank of captain of the guard with renaming as captains of the General Staff. From November 26, 1885, he was senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 18th Infantry Division, and from September 15, 1886, he was senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 14th Army Corps .

From October 7, 1887, the qualified command of the company served in the 69th Ryazan Infantry Regiment , and from November 25, 1887, it was for special assignments at the headquarters of the 14th Army Corps.

On April 9, 1891 he was appointed headquarters officer under the management of the 8th local brigade. April 21, 1891 promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel . July 3, 1891 he was appointed headquarters officer under the command of the 43rd Infantry Reserve Brigade. From May 1, 1894 he passed the qualification command of the battalion in the Life Guards Volyn Regiment. April 2, 1895 promoted to the rank of colonel .

From March 2, 1902 - the commander of the 182nd infantry reserve Grokhovsky regiment , and from September 2, 1904 - major general , general for commissions under the commander of the Warsaw Military District.

On January 10, 1905 he was appointed commander of the Life Guards of the Volyn Regiment , and in 1906 he was assigned to the retinue of His Imperial Majesty.

February 4, 1909 promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Military District.

From August 15, 1913, he was the commander of the 1st Caucasian Army Corps , and from July 19, 1914, he was the commander of the 13th Army Corps of the 2nd Army (remaining the head of the 1st Caucasus Army Corps). He commanded the corps during the East Prussian operation during which: August 14 - took Allenstein ; August 15 - was surrounded; August 17 - took command of the 2nd Army after the suicide of A. V. Samsonov ; August 17-18 - made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the environment. Surrendered under Reishenverder .

The beginning of 1919 he spent in Copenhagen . Later he participated in the White movement in the north of Russia. Since July 1919 - commander of the troops of the railway district. Quartermaster General of the Army Commander's Staff.

After the defeat of the whites, he emigrated to Finland, where he died and was buried in Helsinki at the Orthodox cemetery in the Lapinlahti region . ^[one]

• Order of St. Stanislav III degree (1888)
• Order of St. Anne III degree (1892)
• Order of St. Stanislav II degree (1898)
• Order of St. Anne, II degree (1902)
• Order of St. Vladimir III degree (1906)
• Order of St. Stanislav I degree (04/10/1911)
• Order of St. Anne of I degree (05/21/1913; 07/09/1913).

Without allowing yourself a flicker of fiction, since you can accurately collect and find it, keeping closer to the historians, and away from the novelists, we will spread our arms and assure once here: so badly we would not dare to invent, for credibility we would distribute the measure of light and shadow. But from the very first battle the Russian general’s signs flash as marks of unsuitability, and the higher the more hopeless <...>

What kind of novelist could one believe that the corps general Klyuev, who led the central corps deepest into Prussia, had never fought before ?! There is no reason to suppose that Klyuyev was stupid, which is why, not without skill, not without dexterity: he managed to portray the sighted late pursuit of his division against Orlau in such a way that in the report to the Supreme and even the emperor, it was not Martos who was declared the winner under Orlau, but he : it was he, threatening to cover the flank of the enemy., forced him to retreat; and in his memoirs he imprisoned, tied, tied everything up so that everyone is to blame all around, and not Klyuyev. And we do not have direct information that Klyuyev was a crappy person, and from the experience of many other examples, we have no doubt that there would be whitening sincere evidence that he was a good family man and loved children (especially his own), and there was a pleasant table companion and maybe joker. But: no virtue will be blocked, the one who undertook to lead the fate of thousands will not be justified, and led them poorly. We will pity the novice soldier under the first bullets and breaks in the capture of an evil war, and the novice general, no matter how tedious and sickening it is, we will not regret, we will not justify.

- A.I.Solzhenitsyn . Red wheel

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