Gillenchmidt, Yakov Fedorovich

Orthodox. From the nobles of the Vologda province . The son of a real state adviser Fedor G. Gillenshmidt .

At the end of the Page Corps in 1890, he was produced from the pages in the second lieutenants of the 1st Horse Artillery Battery with a secondment to the Guards Horse Artillery Brigade . The following year he was transferred to the brigade with the same rank.

Ranks: lieutenant (1894), staff captain (1898), captain (1902), colonel (1903), major general (1912), lieutenant general (1915).

Since 1895 he was an adjutant of the 1st division of the Guards Horse-Artillery Brigade, since 1898 - an adjutant of the brigade. On April 6, 1903, for the service difference, he was promoted to colonel, with the appointment as commander of the 1st Battery of the Guards Horse-Artillery Brigade, which he held until March 26, 1904. As the commander of the division of the Terek-Kuban cavalry regiment as part of the newly formed Caucasian cavalry brigade, he participated in the Russian-Japanese war . He was awarded several orders, including the Order of St. George 4th degree for the Khaichensky raid and Golden weapons “for courage” .

On January 14, 1906 he was appointed commander of the Caucasian Reserve Cavalry Division , and on July 7 of the same year - commander of the 44th Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment . May 21, 1912 for the difference in service, promoted to major general, with the appointment of the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Caucasian Cavalry Division . On June 8, 1912 he was appointed commander of the Life Guards of the Cuirassier of His Majesty the regiment . May 6, 1913 enrolled in the Suite .

March 25, 1914 he was appointed commander of the Life Guards Horse Artillery , with which he entered the First World War . On September 29, 1914 he was appointed commander of the 3rd Don Cossack Division, and on October 11 of the same year - commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division . In December 1914, during the fighting in the Petrokov Province, he commanded a large cavalry group, which included the 1st and 2nd Guards Cavalry Divisions, the Ural Cossack Division and the Trans-Baikal Cossack Brigade . On May 13, 1915, he was appointed commander of the 4th Cavalry Corps , and on May 7, 1916, he was promoted to lieutenant general with approval in office.

At the end of 1917 he brought his corps to the Don and transferred its headquarters to Rostov-on-Don . In January 1918, he surrendered command to A.P. Bogaevsky and joined the Volunteer Army . Participated in the 1st Kuban campaign . In April 1918, when the army retreated from Yekaterinodar, he left it with a small detachment, was surrounded by the Gnachbau colony, and was killed in battle in an attempt to break through.

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1897);
• Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1901);
• Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. with swords (1904);
• Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. with swords (1904);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. with swords and bow (1904);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. with swords (1905);
• Order of St. George 4th Art. (VP 29.03.1906);
• swords and bow to the Order of St. Anne 3rd art. (1906);
• Golden weapon “For courage” (VP 07.10.1906);
• Order of St. Anne 1st Art. with swords (VP ​​19.02.1915);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. with swords (VP ​​19.02.1915);
• Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd art. with swords (VP ​​26.05.1915).

• List to the generals by seniority . Done on April 15, 1914. - Petrograd, 1914.
• Zalessky K. A. Who was who in the First World War. - M .: AST ; Astrel, 2003 .-- 896 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-17-019670-9 (ACT); ISBN 5-271-06895-1 (Astrel).
• Gillenchmidt, Yakov Fedorovich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
• E. E. Ismailov. Golden weapon with the inscription "For courage." Lists of gentlemen 1788-1913. - Moscow, 2007