Bekovich-Cherkassky, Fedor Nikolaevich

Born May 14, 1870 in an Orthodox family, inhabited mainly by the Kumyks - the village of Upper Bekovichi (the Bekovichi estate, now the village of Kizlyar) ^[4] . Which was located in Lesser Kabarda, on the right bank of the Terek, near the city of Mozdok . The son of Colonel , Prince Nikolai Efimovich Bekovich-Cherkassky (born 1841) and the grandson of Colonel Efim (Aslanbek) Aleksandrovich Bekovich-Cherkassky (1794-1869).

In April 1917, he returned to the religion of ancestors - Islam, and since then, according to documents, he was named Tembot Zhanhotovich ^[5] .

Track record

• 1894 - Graduated from Elisavetgrad cavalry school .
• 1903 - Graduated from Officer Cavalry School .
• 1904 - Podesaul , the first commander of the Kabardian hundreds as part of the Terek-Kuban Regiment of the Caucasian Horse Brigade.
• 1904-1905 - At the head of hundreds participated in the Russo-Japanese War .
• 1914 - Army foreman , commandant of Irkutsk .
• He served in the Kabardian cavalry regiment .
• 1916 - Commander of the Tatar Horse Regiment .
• October 29, 1916 - Commander of the 2nd brigade (Tatar and Chechen horse regiments) of the Caucasian native cavalry division .
• May 4 - October 21, 1917 - Commander of the 1st Guards Cuirassier Regiment .
• The commander of the 2nd brigade (Chechen and Ingush horse regiments) of the 1st Caucasian native cavalry division.
• Major General .
• Joined the Volunteer Army .
• Late 1917 - Formed mountain units in the Caucasus.
• December 8, 1918 - Commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Circassian Horse Division.
• February 1919 - Ruler of Kabarda .
• March 17, 1919 - Head of the Kabardian equestrian division.
• March 31 (April 13) 1919 - Lieutenant General . Prince Fyodor Nikolaevich (Tembot Zhanhotovich) Bekovich-Cherkassky was promoted to major general by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the All-Union Judiciary Union A.I. Denikin No. 567 of 03/31/1919. In 1917, he was not promoted to major general, although he was in a major general position.
• 1920 - Consisted of the Russian Army of Wrangel before the evacuation of Crimea . He was evacuated from Yalta on the ship "Corvin".
• 1921 - Member of the National Committee for the Liberation of the Mountain Peoples of the North Caucasus in Constantinople , then in France .

He was married to the Kumyk prince of Aksai, Nadzhav Kaplanova, sister of the prince of Aksai, Rashid Khan Kaplanov . After the establishment of Soviet power, Tembot Bekovich-Cherkassky and his wife lived in exile in Paris.

In 1941-1945, Bekovich-Cherkassky was the head of the Russian National Movement in Paris . He was the honorary chairman of the union of the Life Guards of Cuirassier of His Imperial Majesty the regiment.

He was elected chairman of the Union of Officers of the Caucasian Armies. He was a member of the Caucasian Allaverdi Society. He was a member of the Committee for the preparation of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of M. Yu. Lermontov (1939).

He died in Paris on November 16, 1953. Together with his wife, they were buried in a Muslim cemetery in Bobigny near Paris. The last male representative of the Bekovichi-Cherkassky clan.

• Order of St. George IV class (VP ​​23.05.1916) - for the horse attack of the division of the Kabardinsky regiment on September 10, 1915 near the village of Dobropole.
• He was also awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree (1904); St. Anna of the 3rd degree with swords and bow (1904); St. Stanislav 2nd degree with swords (1904); St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords (1905); Golden weapons (1905); St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1905); St. Vladimir 4th degree with swords and bow (1906).

• Bekovich-Cherkassky, Fedor Nikolaevich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
• Shkuro A. G. Civil war in Russia: Notes of a white partisan.
• BEKOVICH-CHERKASSKY Fedor Nikolaevich
• Hundred Risen