Ivanov the Thirteenth, Konstantin Petrovich

Konstantin Petrovich was born on May 16, 1872. Father - captain of the 2nd rank Peter Ivanov 4th, mother - Sofia Ivanovna, daughter of the captain of the naval naval corps Ivan Dobrov ^[1] .

Adopted in 1886 in the Naval Cadet Corps . According to the tradition that existed in the Navy at that time, Konstantin Petrovich was assigned serial number 13 as an officer with the same surname ^[ 18 ^] with the release from the Marine Corps in 1895 (according to other sources in 1894 ^[2] ).

In 1895, the midshipman was assigned to the 33rd naval crew of the Black Sea Fleet. In 1899, Konstantin Petrovich was promoted to the rank of lieutenant ^[1] .

In July 1901, Konstantin Ivanov was sent to the Pacific Ocean, where he took part in the suppression of the Boxer Uprising , for which he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav III degree ^[1] .

Then he returned to the Black Sea and enlisted in the squadron battleship “ Chesma ” under the command of M. Ya. Bal as a senior artillery officer. In parallel, Konstantin Petrovich combined the post of teacher of the Training Unit ^[1] .

In September 1903, Konstantin Ivanov was transferred to the Pacific Ocean. In October 1903 he was appointed a junior artillery officer (left-side battery commander ^[3] ) to the Rurik cruiser under the command of Captain 1st Rank E. A. Trusov , a member of the Vladivostok Cruiser Squad . During cruising from June 15 to 20, 1904 in the Sea of ​​Japan , on June 18 he repelled a mine attack, for which he was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the III degree with swords and a bow “For Courage and Bravery” ^[1] .

On July 28, 1904, the Vladivostok detachment of cruisers (“ Russia ,” “Rurik,” “ Thunderbolt ”) went to sea to support the breakthrough of the ships of the Port Arthur squadron to Vladivostok. On the night of August 1, following the Strait of Korea , 40 miles from the port of Fusan (now Busan ), the detachment was met by Japanese ships, which immediately cut off the escape routes. In the ensuing battle , the Japanese focused their fire on the Rurik, as on a closing ship. During the battle, the cruiser captain was killed, and officers who replaced him as cruiser commander were also killed or injured. The cruiser "Rurik" received damage to the steering wheel. At one point, Konstantin Ivanov, for the loss of officers, took command of the cruiser on himself, and began to lead the battle. "Russia" and "Stormbreaker" tried to cover themselves, although they themselves received significant damage, but the Japanese concentrated their main fire precisely on the "Rurik". After a 10-hour battle, the cruiser completely lost the ability to maneuver, the donkey stern, and the main caliber guns ran out of shells, while there was no longer any possibility of retreating to the north, the Japanese went closer to capture. Konstantin Ivanov, being at this point already three times wounded, twice shell-shocked and with a shell fragment in his head, gave the order to ram the Japanese ships. Realizing that there would be no surrender on the part of the Russians, Admiral Kamimura was furious and ordered that the cruiser be re-opened. In a hopeless situation, Konstantin Petrovich ordered the sailors to open the kingstones, throw the wounded overboard and leave the Rurik, and he personally destroyed all the secret documents, after which he was the last to leave the ship. At 10 hours 42 minutes on August 1, 1904, the Rurik armored cruiser of the 1st rank of the Russian Imperial Navy began to sink with the flag of St. Andrew raised and the deployed gyus, which meant "I'm dying, but I don't give up . " In total, 204 people died and 305 sailors were wounded on the Rurik. Survivors were hoisted on Japanese ships. Later, on the initiative of KP Ivanov, the officers wrote down their comments on the cruisers, in particular on the artillery and tactics of warfare, and handed them over to the Admiralty to the father of Alexy Okoneshnikov, who also survived from Rurik ^[1] .

The treatment of Konstantin Petrovich was long. On April 13, 1906, according to the lists of the Alexander Committee of Russia, he was still among the wounded 3 classes ^[1] .

In 1907, while in Greece, K. P. Ivanov received from Queen Olga Konstantinovna a book telling about the death of Rurik. In the same year, in order to commemorate the heroic actions of the last Rurik commander, the emperor awarded KP Ivanov the Order of St. George IV degree and commanded him from now on with descending descendants (with the right to transfer a double surname by inheritance) to be called only Ivan the Thirteenth ^{[1 ]} . The order for the Maritime Department to list him on the lists of Ivanov-Thirteenth was issued in St. Petersburg, September 3, 1907, number 197.

In the Far East, in 1908, Konstantin Petrovich held the post of senior officer of the training ship "Khabarovsk" under the command of Ermakov. Characteristic by Konstantin Petrovich from 1908 ^[1] :

“I’m ready to give up personal pleasures for the benefit of the service, I’m very even and don’t seek out with my superiors, I’m attentive and caring to the lower ranks, educated and respectful in society, I’m not noticed in alcohol addiction, I’m not noticed for drinking out of service, believer and religious, excellent and a caring family man, a monarchist, is not involved in politics, he is also quick-tempered and easily loses his composure, has the word and is very good. General conclusion: it is desirable to nominate such officers in the service ”

- The commander of the training vessel "Khabarovsk" Ermakov

In the same year, K.P. Ivanov the Thirteenth was promoted to captain of the 2nd rank, and transferred to Vladivostok as the head of the submarine division of the Pacific Ocean. He held this position until 1912, until he was appointed to the position of commander of the cruiser " Pearl ". With whom, at first, he was in the armed reserve, and from 1913 he served as a hospital worker in Shanghai and Hankou until mid-May 1914, when he returned to Vladivostok. In June, Konstantin Petrovich handed the cruiser under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Baron I. A. Cherkasov and arrived in the Baltic ^{[1] [4]} .

In 1915, K.P. Ivanov the Thirteenth was appointed commander of the liner cruiser Ismail under construction.

At the end of June 1916, already in the rank of captain of the 1st rank, K.P. Ivanov the Thirteenth was appointed commander of the cruiser " Peresvet " instead of the captain of the 1st rank D. D. Zabotkin , who, after redemption from the Japanese battleship, ran aground. In July, after a small repair in Vladivostok, Peresvet switched to repair in Maizuru . On October 19, the battleship left Maizuru in the Baltic. On December 22, leaving the Port Said escorted by an English destroyer, at 5:30 p.m. in the Mediterranean Sea, Peresvet blew up two mines at once, and the ship began to quickly gather water. Then Konstantin Petrovich ordered everyone to leave the ship. At 5:47 p.m., Peresvet tipped over and sank at a depth of about 45 meters, 10 miles from Port Said. 252 people died with the ship. 557 people of the team were saved from the English destroyer and French trawlers, but later another 9 people died from wounds and hypothermia ^[5] .

In the Baltic, KP Ivanov the Thirteenth in 1917 spent some time arming an ocean yacht that was purchased in Italy for the needs of the Arctic Ocean flotilla ^[2] .

Konstantin Petrovich did not accept the October Revolution . Since November 1917, K.P. Ivanov the Thirteenth became part of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia (VSYUR) under the command of A.I. Denikin . Further, he was appointed head of the Taganrog Commercial Port ^[2] .

In 1920, after the defeat of the All-Union Socialist Liberation Union, on the ship St. Nicholas was evacuated from Novorossiysk to Turkey , where he remained until the summer of 1922. On January 1, 1922, Konstantin Petrovich was a member of the Union of Naval Officers ^{[2] [6]} .

Then he emigrated to the French city of Lyon . In Lyon, Konstantin Petrovich got a job with a retired sergeant of the French army at a pawnshop. In exile, Konstantin Petrovich from 1923 to 1931 was the chairman of the circle of former pupils of the Naval Cadet Corps and individual midshipman classes in Lyon ^{[2] [6]} .

In 1930, he became chairman of the Lyon cabin company of former officers of the Imperial Navy and the Maritime Department. On March 13 of the same year, Konstantin Petrovich was promoted to Rear Admiral in the Corps of the Imperial Army and Navy ^[2] .

He died in Lyon in France on December 2, 1933. He was buried in the cemetery of the town of Desin, department of Isère ^[6] .

Konstantin Petrovich left:

• Son - K.K. Ivanov the Thirteenth (1894 - 08/28/1964 Lyon). Naval officer, participant in world and civil wars. Then he emigrated to France, lived in Lyon. Vice Chairman of the Committee of Russian Stateless Emigrants in Lyon. In the 1950s, he participated in the organization of the holidays of the National Organization of Knights (NOV) and spoke at the “Intransigence Day” meetings. Member of the Lyon branch of the Central Association of Political Emigrants from the USSR (TsOPE). In 1961, the chairman of the CPEC at a meeting in Paris. He died on August 28, 1964 in Lyon. He was buried at Desin Cemetery.
• Grandson K.K. Ivanov the Thirteenth (01/31/1922 Constantinople - 08/08/1944 Fay de Brittany, Department of the Atlantic Loire ). As a sergeant in the French army, during World War II, from 1942 he was a member of the Resistance movement. He was awarded the Military Cross and the Military Medal. From his wounds, he died in the hospital of the commune of Fay de Brittany, was buried in Desin cemetery in Lyon, where his father and grandfather.

• He was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree (September 26, 1905).
• St. Vladimir 3rd degree
• St. Anne 2nd and 3rd degree with swords and bow
• St. Stanislav 2nd and 3rd degree
• Order of the Turkish Ottomanism of the 4th degree
• Silver medal in memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III
• Light bronze medal for a trip to China in 1900-1901
• Light bronze medal with a bow in memory of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905
• Bronze medal in memory of the Patriotic War of 1812
• Light bronze medal commemorating the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty
• Light bronze medal in memory of the Gangut victory
• Gold badge commemorating the end of the course of the Marine Corps: for the completion of officer classes in artillery and diving .

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