Boris Vladimir Nikitin ( 1883 - August 11, 1943 ) - officer of the Russian Imperial Army . Member of the White movement .
| Boris Vladimirovich Nikitin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1883 |
| Date of death | August 11, 1943 |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire White movement |
| Years of service | 1904-1917 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil War |
| Awards and prizes |  |
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Biography
The son of a general from artillery V.N. Nikitin . Educated at the Tiflis Cadet Corps and the Institute of Railways (1907).
Officer of the Life Guards 1st Artillery Brigade. Member of the Russian-Japanese war.
In 1914 he graduated from the 2nd grade of the Nikolaev Military Academy (obviously in the 2nd category, since the General Staff List 1914 is not listed).
Member of the First World War. He served in the Kabardian cavalry regiment. He was assigned to the General Staff (1915). Captain (Project 1916; Art. 15.06.1913). Since February 1916 - Senior Adjutant to the Headquarters of the 2nd Cavalry Corps. In August 1916 - Art. adjutant of the headquarters of the Caucasian native cavalry division . Since November 30, 1916 - assistant to Art. Adjutant of the 7th Army Headquarters Quartermaster Department.
On March 12, 1917, he was the acting head of counterintelligence of the Petrograd Military District. Since June 1917 - Quartermaster General of the Headquarters of the Petrograd Military District. Head of the intelligence department of the GUGSH (from 07.1917).
In September 1917, due to disagreement with the policies of the Provisional Government during and after Kornilovsky’s speech, he left the service in the Petrograd Military District and was appointed chief of staff of the Caucasian native horse corps with which he soon left for the Caucasus. Lieutenant Colonel (project 1917).
Member of the White movement in the Caucasus; from 1918 to February 1919, commander of the field troops of the Bicherakhov detachment in Dagestan. Colonel In exile . For 1932 in France. Chairman of the Union of Engineers.
He died in 1943, was buried in the Paris cemetery of Batignolles .
The Fatal Years
Nikitin became famous for his memoirs published in Paris in 1937.
One of the reviewers of the leading émigré journal "Modern Notes" , while paying tribute to new facts, pointed out the tendentiousness of some fragments that required verification. For example:
“Nikitin is saying that the ranks of the counterintelligence sent to him for the arrest of Trotsky had caught in his apartment ... Minister Chernov , having obstructed the name of Vrem. Government arrest. But the author should coordinate his story with the version of the same his closest boss, the gene. Polovtseva ... " [1]
Rewards
- St. George's Arms (VP 04.08.1916).
In Culture
In the television series Death of an Empire , the role of Nikitin was played by Vladislav Galkin .
Works
- B.V. Nikitin. Fatal years. - Paris, 1937.
- English translation: Nikitine, BV The Fatal Years. Fresh Revelations on a Chapter of Underground History. London, Hodge, 1938.
Links
- Nikitin, Boris Vladimirovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".