Nikolai Nikolaevich Kolomeytsev (Kolomeytsov) ( July 16, 1867 , p. Pokrovka of the Kherson province , October 6, 1944 , Paris ) - Russian vice admiral, participant in the Tsushima battle.
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| Date of Birth | July 16, 1867 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | Kherson province Russian empire | |||||||||
| Date of death | October 6, 1944 (aged 77) | |||||||||
| Place of death | Paris | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||||||
| Type of army | Navy | |||||||||
| Rank | Vice Admiral | |||||||||
| Commanded | yacht "Dawn"; icebreaker "Ermak"; destroyer "Violent"; yacht "Diamond"; battleship "Glory"; brigade of cruisers of the Baltic Fleet; Marvelous flotilla | |||||||||
| Battles / wars | Tsushima battle | |||||||||
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Biography
- 1884 - Entered military service.
- September 29, 1887 - Midshipman .
- December 13, 1893 - Lieutenant "for the difference."
- 1893 - Led the ship “ Lieutenant Ovtsyn ” from Great Britain to the mouth of the Yenisei.
- 1894 - Graduated from the Mines Officer Class.
- 1894-1895 - Sailing in the Pacific Ocean on the cruiser " Gaydamak ".
- 1896 - Mine officer of the 1st rank (1896).
- October 23, 1899 - Assigned to the Siberian Navy crew.
The commander of the yacht "Dawn" Lieutenant N. N. Kolomeytsev in the wardroom, 1900
1900-1901 - The commander of the yacht " Dawn " in the polar expedition of Baron E.V. Toll . Due to disagreements with Toll, he left the ship and in April 1901, along with Stepan Rastorguev, traveled about 800 kilometers to Golchikha (Yenisei Bay) in 40 days. On the way, he opened the Kolomeytsev River flowing into the Taimyr Bay.
- 1902-1904 - Commander of the icebreaker " Ermak ".
- December 6, 1904 - Captain of the 2nd rank .
- July 12, 1904 - Commander of the destroyer destroyer Buiny as part of the 2nd Pacific Squadron.
- May 14-15, 1905 - Participated in the Tsushima battle . Picked up more than 200 team members at the site of the death of the battleship Oslyabya. At 5.30 pm on May 14, noting that the flagship battleship “ Prince Suvorov ” was engulfed in flames and dangerously tilted to the left side, “Buiny” under the command of Kolomeytsev went to the windward side of the “Suvorov” and evacuated Vice Admiral Z. P. Rozhestvensky, wounded in the head and Headquarters of the 2nd Pacific Squadron. After that, Rozhdestvensky switched to the Bedovy destroyer following the course. A few hours later, and already with the squadron commander on board, the Bedovy surrendered without a fight to two Japanese cruisers [1] . According to some information, after the death of the destroyer Kolomeytsev, the " Violent " was on the cruiser " Dmitry Donskoy ", was seriously wounded, was captured by the Japanese. According to other sources, Captain Kolomeytsev saved his ship and crew when the ship was in a dangerous position and Kolmeytsev was given a sheet for making a white flag, then he threw it overboard in indignation [1] . He was involved as a witness in the trial of Admiral Rozhdestvensky, spoke extremely carefully, for fear of harming the accused comrades [1] .
- November 4, 1906 - Senior officer of the battleship " Andrew the First-Called ".
- 1908 - Graduated from the naval sciences at the Maritime Academy.
- January 14, 1908-1910 - The commander of the yacht " Diamond ".
- December 6, 1909 - Captain 1st rank "for distinction."
- November 15, 1910 - August 14, 1913 - Commander of the battleship " Glory ". (Took command from the captain of 1p. E. E. Ketler December 10, 1910)
- December 6, 1913 - Rear Admiral .
- May 12 - December 24, 1914 - Head of the brigade of cruisers of the Baltic Fleet (Stormbreaker, Admiral Makarov, Pallada, Bayan II).
- September 16, 1915 - March 31, 1917 - Commander of the Peipsi Military Flotilla .
- October 6, 1917 - Resigned with the rank of vice admiral .
- Arrested by the Bolsheviks , placed in the Peter and Paul Fortress .
- Late 1918 - Fled on the ice of the Gulf of Finland to Finland, and then went to the Black Sea.
- He was a member of the Volunteer Army and the All-Union Federal League of Justice . He commanded the Black Sea icebreakers.
- He emigrated to France. Member of the Board of the Union of Former Naval Officers. Vice-chairman of the Union of St. George Knights in France.
Shot down in Paris by an American army truck on October 6, 1944. Buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois .
Family
- Wife Nina Dmitrievna Nabokova (1860-1944) - combined with the Kolomeytsev second marriage (the first marriage was with Colonel E. A. Rausch von Traubenberg ). The marriage was concluded July 12, 1909. She was the aunt of the writer V.V. Nabokov , Kolomeytsev mentioned in Nabokov’s memoirs “Other Shores”. It was Nikolai Nikolayevich who was supposed to be a second in VD Nabokov in an unsuccessful duel with the editor of New Time M. A. Suvorin . On the evening of October 17, 1911, making sure that Suvorin did not intend to publicly apologize, Kolomeytsev presented a call, but was refused [2] . Nina Dmitrievna died in Paris on September 28, 1944 a few days before the death of her husband.
Differences
- Silver medal "for the salvation of the lost" (1890) and a bow to it (1893)
- French Order of the Crown of Cambodia Officer Badge (1895)
- Order of St. Anne, III degree (20.5.1895)
- Silver medal in memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander the Third (1896)
- Gold medal "for the salvation of the lost" (1896)
- Silver medal commemorating the Holy Coronation of Their Imperial Majesties (1898)
- Bronze medal commemorating military events in China (1902)
- Order of St. Stanislav III degree with a sword (26.3.1904)
- Order of St. Vladimir IV degree with swords and bow (11.10.1904)
- Light bronze medal in memory of the war with Japan of 1904-1905 (1906)
- Golden saber “for courage” (8.1.1906)
- Order of St. George IV degree (8.7.1907)
- Royal Victorian Order IV Degree (1908)
- Golden sign commemorating the completion of the full course of sciences of the Marine Corps (1910)
- Light bronze medal commemorating the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty (1913)
- Order of St. Vladimir III degree (1913)
- French Order of the Legion of Honor of the Commander's Cross (1914)
- Light bronze medal commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Gangut victory.
- Order of St. Stanislav I degree (10.4.1916)
Named after N. N. Kolomeytsev
- Islands, bay and strait in the Kara Sea
- River flowing into Taimyr Bay
- Mountain [3] on the island of Rastorguev
- In 1972, the Soviet hydrographic vessel was named after Kolomeytsev
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Dubrovsky E.V. Cases about the surrender to the Japanese 1) the destroyer "Bedovy" and 2) the squadron of Nebogatov. St. Petersburg, 1907. Cit. by: [1]
- ↑ Yuri Leving . Antipathy with prehistory: Nabokovs and Suvorins in life and in prose. UFO 2009, No. 96
- ↑ Map sheet S-45-XIX, XX winters. Staromorzhovo . Scale: 1: 200 000. Indicate the date of issue / condition of the area .