Penza 121st Infantry Regiment

In 1820 - Mirgorod . The second battalion was sent to Voznesensk to the settled Bug Ulan division ^[1] .

Formed on July 11, 1813 from the remnants of the reserve and reserve battalions, as part of three battalions, under the name of the 54th Chasseurs Regiment and on August 30, 1815, was named the 21st Chasseurs.

During the war of 1828-1829. with Turkey, the 21st Jäger Regiment, guarding the rear of the army, was garrisons in Kyustendzhi and Girsovo, and in 1831 took part in the suppression of the Polish uprising and distinguished himself during the storming of Warsaw .

On January 28, 1833, the 21st Eger Regiment was attached to the Elets Infantry Regiment and comprised the 3rd, 4th and 6th reserve battalions.

On April 6, 1863, a two-battalion Yelets reserve infantry regiment was formed from the 4th reserve battalion and the indefinite-selling period, which on August 13, 1863 was named the Penza infantry regiment and brought to three battalions with three rifle companies.

On March 25, 1864, the Penza regiment received No. 121. On April 17, 1877, the military minister, Adjutant General D. A. Milyutin, was appointed chief of the regiment.

Having taken in 1877-1878. participating in the war with Turkey , the Penzens distinguished themselves during the capture of Nikopol , and then were moved to Pleven and participated in its unsuccessful attack on July 18 (the second assault on Pleven ), during which, attacking Grivitsky Redoubt, they lost 27 officers and 953 lower ranks. In 1879, a monument near the village of Grivitsa near Plevna was erected and solemnly consecrated to Penza soldiers and officers fallen on July 18, 1877 ^{[2] [3]} .

Then the regiment took part in the storming of Plevna on August 30 (the third storming of Plevna) and from September 2 to November 28 occupied the permanent Grivitsky redoubt.

After the fall of Pleven, the Penza regiment was assigned to the Western detachment of General Gurko and the 2nd and 3rd battalions received the St. George banner, and the 1st battalion - St. George’s pipe for distinction in battle on December 20 at Gorny Bugarovo. After the conclusion of peace, the Penza regiment participated in the suppression of the uprising in the Rhodope Mountains .

In 1879, the 4th battalion was formed in the regiment.

On September 22, 1898, the regiment was given the name of the 121st Penza Infantry General Field Marshal of Count Milutin Regiment.

On May 4, 1904, the regiment sent for war to the regiment was made in Kharkiv by Emperor Nicholas II.

During the Russian-Japanese war, the Penza regiment participated in the battles of Yushulin, at Kangualin, Liaoyan and on the Shahe river , having lost 10 officers and 594 lower ranks during the attack of Lesnoy, and during the Mukden battle the regiment, was moved on February 23, 1905 to the village of Madyapu to replace the 33rd Infantry Regiment of the Yelets and for two days withstood the onslaught of the Japanese. During the retreat of the army to Telin, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th battalions of the Penza regiment were surrounded by the Japanese at the Imperial grove and the village of Sahedza and, having suffered huge losses (22 officers and 1,359 lower ranks), they made their way to the south with bayonets. For their valiant participation in the war with Japan, the Penza regiment was granted "a campaign for military distinction."

Upon the death of the regiment's chief, Milyutin, the regiment retained his name. On July 11, 1913, on the day of the 100th anniversary, the regiment was granted a new St. George banner with an additional inscription "1813-1913" and with the Alexander jubilee ribbon.

During the First World War, the Penza Regiment took an active part in hostilities as part of the 10th Army Corps .

... On December 19 [1914], the Penzents took 1,800 prisoners and 11 machine guns from Lüzhno, losing their regiment commander Colonel Evsyukov.

- A. A. Kersnovsky ^[4]

... On September 29 [1917] in the 10th Army Corps, the 31st Infantry Division of General Volkhovskiy jerked the 17th Austro-Hungarian Corps with a short and brilliant blow from Vashkoets. The trophies of the glorious case at Washkouches were 12 officers, 800 prisoners of the lower ranks, 18 guns (4 heavy), 2 mortars, 1 bomb and 10 machine guns. Everything is taken by the 121st Penza Infantry Regiment. His brave commander, Colonel Mansuradze, was killed. The last line in more than two centuries of chronicles was inscribed with the bayonets of the Penzents. The old army of Peter the Great took one last deep breath and closed her own eyes ...

- A. A. Kersnovsky ^[4]

Regimental holiday - June 29th.

On October 14, 1919, the 1st Combined Regiment of the 31st Infantry Division of the VSYUR was formed on the basis of the officer cadres of the 121st Infantry Penza and the 122nd Infantry Tambov Regiments of the Imperial Army.

• The regimental George's banner with the inscription "For Sevastopol in 1854 and 1855 and Mountain Bugarovo on December 20, 1877" and "1813-1913" with the Alexander's jubilee ribbon
• Insignia on the headgear with the inscription "For Warsaw on August 25 and 26, 1831"
• Silver St. George pipes with the inscription "3a Mountain Bugarovo December 20, 1877"
• "Hike for military distinction" for the war with Japan, 1904-1905.

• in 1820 - Colonel Repninsky 2nd
• 1871–1872 - Nikolai Petrovich Kladischev
• 1872–1876 - Pechora, Felix Dominicovich
• 1876–1879 - Colonel Konarzhevsky, Daniel Albertovich
• 1879 -? - Muromtsev, Nikolay Nikolayevich
• July 9, 1989 - July 5, 1893 - Colonel Melnitsky, Yuri Dmitrievich
• on 1894 - Colonel Merkazin, Dmitry Alexandrovich
• 02/24/1900 - 03/14/1904 - Colonel Zegelov, Alexander Alexandrovich
• 03/31/1904 to 03/09/1905 - Colonel Markov, Sergey Dmitrievich
• June 14, 1905 - Nov 4, 1910 - Colonel Gutor, Alexey Evgenievich
• 11/04/1910 - 03/28/1914 - Colonel Gorsky, Alexander Nikolaevich
• 07.1914 - 07/18/1915 - Colonel Evsyukov, Nikolai Fedorovich
• 07/18/1915 - 08/31/1916 - Colonel Tetruev, Nikolai Gavrilovich
• 09/07/1916 - after January 3, 1917 - Colonel Suvorov, Mikhail Nikolayevich
• 1917 - 09.1917 - Colonel Mansuradze, Georgy Alexandrovich

• Boldyzhev, Ivan Ivanovich - lieutenant colonel, hero of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878.
• Gromnitsky, Peter Fedorovich - lieutenant, Decembrist.
• Myasnikov, Alexander Fedorovich - ensign, prominent Bolshevik leader.

When our Tsar Liberator
War declared wrong
Then it seemed Almighty
Russian troops blessed

For the Father-King
We shout it all - Hooray!
He light us and the dawn
In honor of Him - Hooray! Hooray! ^[5] .

Monument at a mass grave in Bulgaria

On the territory of the Detkovitsa village in the village of Grivitsa, the Pleven Oblast community of the Republic of Bulgaria, there is a monument to the dead soldiers and officers of the Penza 121st Infantry Regiment ^{[2] [3] [6] [7]} .

The monument to the fallen Penza residents was erected and solemnly consecrated in 1879 ^[2] .

The inscription on the monument is stamped:

Mass grave of officers and lower ranks of the 121st Penza Infantry Regiment, Adjutant General of Count Milutin regiment, who fell July 18, 1877

• Penza Musketeers Regiment - formed on August 29, 1805, on October 19, 1810 it was reorganized into the 45th Jäger Regiment .
• The Old Penza Infantry Regiment was formed on January 17, 1811, disbanded on January 28, 1833 and its battalions were attached to the Olonets Infantry Regiment . The regiment is known for the fact that a significant number of its officers took part in the movement of the Decembrists .
• Penza Horse Regiment of the people's militia - formed in 1812 to repel the invasion of Napoleon , disbanded in 1814.
• Penza provincial provincial battalion - formed January 17, 1811; after several renames and transformations, he entered on December 1, 1892 to form the 185th infantry reserve Lida regiment, named on January 1, 1898 as the 172nd Lida infantry regiment .

• Boldyzhev I.I. Memo of the 121st Infantry Penza Adjutant-General of the Count Milutin regiment. For the lower ranks (rus.) . - Kharkov, 1894. - 74 p.
• Military Encyclopedia / Ed. V.F. Novitsky and others. - SPb. : t. in. V. Sytin, 1911-1915.
• Gabaev G.S. Paintings on the Russian regiments of 1812. Kiev, 1912
• PENZENSKIJ, 121th pѣh., Field Marshal-Gen. Milyutina, Polk (Rus.) // Military Encyclopedia / Under the editorship of K. I. Velichko, V. F. Novitsky, et al. Volume 18 “Pauker, German Egorovich - Port Arthur”. - SPb. : t. in. V. Sytin, 1915. - p . 338 .
• Tyustin A.V. MILYUTIN Dmitry Alekseevich (Rus.) // Tyustin A.V., Shishkin I.S. Penza Personality. Glory Penza multiplied. T. 2 (M-T): [biogr. words.]. - M .: Locus Standi, 2012. - p . 39 . - ISBN 978-5-94428-098-5 .