Popov, Konstantin Sergeevich (military)

He graduated from the Tiflis Military School from which he left the regiment of His Majesty’s 13th Life Grenadier Erivan . On the eve of World War I he was sent as a junior officer in the intelligence team of the Erivan Regiment to the border with Persia , to the post of Eshakchi of Lankaran County. In September 1914, together with the regiment, he arrived at the front as part of the 2nd Caucasian Army Corps and took part in the battles of this corps in East Prussia , near Warsaw , Bzur and Galicia . He was seriously wounded (lost his left hand), despite the wound, he continued to lead the company, thereby keeping the combat area entrusted to him. After treatment, despite his disability, he returned to the regiment - to the front near Smorgon .

For taking f. Oblychin Popov was awarded the St. George's Arms . Relation:

“... for the fact that in the battle of June 25, 1915 during the attack of f. Oblychin, by personal example, brought his company to bayonets, under especially difficult conditions, and this helped to drive the Austrians out of the farm. ”

- “Life Erivans in the Great War” ^[1] .

Relation on awarding the Order of St. George 4 degrees:

“He is awarded the Order of St. George, 4th class, Second Lieutenant Konstantin Popov for the fact that on July 5, 1915 in the battle near the village of Henrikuvka-Berestye, despite repeated attacks by the enemy, he recaptured those and retained an important section of the position, the loss of which would entail the departure of the entire division. "He was seriously wounded by a fragment of a shell, with which his arm was torn off and severely shell-shocked, he remained and my formation until the end of the battle."

- “ Russian disabled person ” dated April 23, 1917 No. 94. ^[2]

In 1916 he was appointed a course officer at the Tiflis Mikhailovsky Military School . In July 1917, he commanded a junker strike battalion, formed by order of General Kornilov . I restored order at the Proskurovsky railway junction after the German breakthrough near Ternopol , stopping a wave of deserters on the Gusyatin-Proskurov highway. With the departure of General Kornilov from the post of Commander-in-Chief, he was placed at the disposal of the commander of the 23rd Army Corps, General Promptov, on the Romanian Front, where, on the orders of the Provisional Government, his strike battalion was disbanded for "counter-revolution."

After returning to Tiflis, Popov refused to serve in the Georgian army and lived with his mother. In December 1918 he moved from Tiflis to Novorossiysk and was enlisted in the Volunteer Army . He participated in the formation of the Grenadier Battalion in Stavropol , but fell ill with typhus and arrived at the front of the Caucasian Army, General Wrangel already near Tsaritsyn , where he commanded the company and battalion of the 2nd combined regiment of the Caucasian Grenadier Division , which, together with the 1st combined Grenadier Regiment, became part of 6 Division of General Pisarev . He participated in all the battles of the Caucasian Army between Tsaritsyn and Kamyshin until October 1919, when he was seriously wounded in the leg near Dubovka . After returning to the regiment, he miraculously escaped in a battle near White Clay in the winter of 1920, where the remains of the regiment were surrounded by cavalry of the Red Army and died.

On March 8, 1920, Popov fell ill again and was evacuated from Novorossiysk to the island of Cyprus . In 1921 he moved to Belgrade , and then moved to France . In 1930-1931, he spoke at military organizations with reports on the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). Since February 1931 - Secretary of the editorial office of the monthly newspaper Russian Invalid , founded by General N. N. Baratov . He was forced to leave the office and settled in Osgor, in the department of Landa , where he was engaged in gardening and horticulture on the farm until 1946. In 1946 he returned to Paris. Throughout his life in exile, he remained an employee of the Foreign Union of Russian Military Invalids and the Association of the 13th Life-Grenadier Erivan Regiment. Member of the Congresses of the Union in 1955, 1959-1962 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (near Paris). Member of the Union of St. George Knights, since 1960 member of the Court of Honor of the Union. For many years, a member of the Society of lovers of Russian military antiquities. He was a member of the Union of Zealots in memory of Emperor Nicholas II. Author of several books on the theme of the First World War and the Civil War. After the Second World War , on the proceeds from the sale of the farm, Popov published the book “Life Erivans in the Great War” . He was published in the newspaper "Russian invalid", collaborated in the magazine "Military reality."

He died on March 24, 1962 in the House of Russian military invalids in Montmorency near Paris . Buried in a local cemetery.

• brother Popov Mikhail Sergeevich (1897 - August 4, 1915) - ensign, died of a fatal wound in the stomach during the First World War under Art. Wlodawa.

• Memoirs of the Caucasian Grenadier, 1914-1920. Belgrade, Russian Printing House, 1925.
  • French translation: Souvenirs d'un grenadier du Caucase - 1914-1920. Paris, 1931.
  • Shortened German translation: Erinnerungen eines kaukasischen Grenadiers. Stuttgart, C. Belser, 1930.
• G.G. officers: essays. Paris, Imp. Pascal, 1929.
  • Reprint: Moscow, Veche, 2008. ISBN 978-5-9533-2712-1 .
• Temple of Glory . Paris, book publishing house "Renaissance", 1931.
• Life-Erivans in the Great War. 1959.

• Order of St. George 4Art. ;
• St. George's weapon ;
• Order of St. Stanislav 2 Art. with swords;
• Order of St. Stanislav 3 Art. with swords and bow.