Parents, Peter Dmitrievich

The son of a retired general from infantry Dmitry Tikhonovich Parentsov , was born on July 5, 1843.

He was educated in the Page Corps , from which he was released on July 16, 1860, by the ensign in the Life Guards Gatchinsky (later Life Guards Jaegers) regiment and immediately entered the Nikolaev Engineering Academy , but in January 1861, due to unrest in the Academy, the other 116 junior class officers were expelled to their regiment, and on June 11 of that same year, the second lieutenant transferred the battery of the 6th Horse Artillery Brigade to equestrian number 11.

On August 26, 1862, Parents was promoted to lieutenant and on June 1, 1865 entered the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff . On August 29, 1867, Parents was promoted to headquarters captain , on October 28 of the same year he graduated from the 1st grade course at the academy, and was assigned to serve in the headquarters of the guard troops and the Petersburg military district with admission to the General Staff. March 25, 1869 he was appointed Acting Senior Adjutant to the headquarters of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division ; May 4, transferred to the General Staff, with approval in office.

On May 7, 1869, Parents was sent by the Highest Command to Orenburg , for sending to the steppe with troops, and in June he took part in the dispersal of the armed Kazakh masses at the Kazbek tract; On February 16, 1870, he was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow for the disposition and courage shown here.

July 6, 1869 Captain Parents P.D. was the chief of staff of the detachment that arrived in the Kazbek tract (now the village of Uil, Aktobe region. Kazakhstan) and, together with the ataman of the Ural Cossack Army, General N. Verevkin founded the Wil fortification (now the settlement of Will (Oiyl)), O.Ya.

On February 1, 1870, Parents was appointed assistant to the senior adjutant of the headquarters of the troops of the guard and the St. Petersburg military district, and on April 5 he was awarded the highest gratitude for participating in the census of the military population of the capital. By the highest order of August 21, 1870, Parents was appointed a professor of military sciences at the Cavalry Training Squadron and on August 30 of the same year he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd degree.

On August 30, 1871, Parents was promoted to lieutenant colonel , with resignation; On February 8, 1873, he was appointed to serve for special assignments under the Commander-in-Chief of the Guards and the St. Petersburg Military District. On August 30 of the same year, he was granted the imperial crown for the Order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd degree and in the same year he received the Prussian Order of the Crown of the 2nd degree, and the next year the commander’s cross of the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph . On August 30, 1874, Parents was promoted to colonel , resigned and on August 26, 1876 awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree.

Before the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, Parents spent seven months reconnaissance about the forces and location of Turkish troops, secretly traveling around Romania and Bulgaria , and was temporarily arrested by Turkish gendarmes in Ruschuk .

With the opening of hostilities beyond the Danube, Parensev was appointed Chief of Staff of the Caucasian Cossack Division on January 7.

Prior to the final transfer of the theater of operations beyond the Balkans , Parents participated on July 2 in a case near the village of Akidzhalara near Selvi and on July 5 in the occupation of the city of Lovchi by a detachment of the adjutant colonel Zherebkov ; for difference in these matters, Parents was awarded on August 11, 1877, a golden saber with the inscription "For courage . " On July 16, he was in an intensified reconnaissance of Lovchi from the northeast side of the village of Pavlikan, under the command of Major General Skobelev .

From July 17 to August 2, Parents was part of the detachment of Lieutenant General Baron Kridener ; He participated in the battle near Plevna on July 18 in the detachment of Major General Skobelev (under the general command of Lieutenant General Baron Kridener) and in the intensified reconnaissance of Lovchi on July 26. For the difference in these matters, Parents was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with swords and bow on September 30. According to M. D. Skobelev, Parents "was his real assistant in the full sense of the word and in all respects."

From August 12 to 19, Parents was in the Shipkinsky detachment of Lieutenant General Radetsky and participated in skirmishes with the Turks. On August 22, he, under the command of Major General Prince Imeretinsky, participated in the capture of Lovchi by attack and on October 30 for the distinction he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the 3rd degree with swords. Then, until September 1, he was part of the Pleven detachment of Lieutenant General Zotov , and on August 26 he was shell-shocked in the head with a card grenade. On August 30, he participated in the assault on Plevna from the southern side by a detachment of Major General Skobelev, and on August 31 - in a battle on the left flank of the position near Plevna.

Since October 17, Parents has been a member of the Plevna tax detachment under the command of Prince Charles of Romania , and on October 27 he was appointed chief of staff of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division . Since November 3, he was in the western detachment of Adjutant General Gurko , and participated on November 10 and 11 in shootings and in an artillery battle against Pravetskaya fortified position and was heavily shell-shocked. From November 30 to December 22, 1877, Parents was at the Red Cross hospital for treatment; then he was sent to Russia , where he was treated until the end of May 1878. Meanwhile, on April 16, 1878, for the difference in affairs with the Turks, he was promoted to major general (with seniority of December 23 of the same year).

On June 8, 1878, he was appointed acting chief of staff of the Northern (formerly Ruschuk, and then Eastern) detachment; This position was held on May 1, 1879, that is, until his return to Russia, and at the same time, on January 25, 1879, he corrected the position of chief of staff of the 12th Army Corps .

On July 4, 1879, Parents was dismissed from the petition and was then enlisted in the Bulgarian forces , with the appointment of Minister of War. Disagreeing in political views with Prince Alexander Battenberg , Parents was recalled from Bulgaria and on March 29, 1880 re-assigned to the Russian military service in the General Staff with the appointment of being under the Commander-in-Chief of the Guard and the St. Petersburg Military District. On August 11 of the same year, he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav of the 1st degree for excellently diligent service and work incurred in the former Active Army of Parents, and he was granted royal favor for service in the occupation forces.

On September 1, 1880, Parents was enrolled in the General Staff and on September 6, 1881 he was appointed chief of staff of the 2nd Army Corps in Vilna . May 15, 1883 awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 1st degree.

Contusions and deprivations during the war, as well as labor and troubles in Bulgaria responded to Parensova with a serious illness and on October 7, 1884, he retired on leave with admission to the reserve at the General Staff.

On March 14, 1886, Parents was again determined from the reserve for active service, with the appointment of being at the disposal of the chief of the General Staff and with admission to the General Staff. On April 19, 1887, he was appointed Warsaw commandant, and on July 26 of the same year, he was appointed assistant chief of staff of the Warsaw Military District .

On August 30, 1888 he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree, on February 19, 1890 he was appointed commander of the 6th Cavalry Division, and on August 30 of the same year, with the production of lieutenant general , he was approved in his post. On October 8, 1890, Parents was enlisted in the lists of the General Staff, with the resignation of the army cavalry; On August 30, 1893 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle . From December 7, 1898 to June 5, 1902, Parents was the commandant of the Warsaw Fortress, and in 1899 he was awarded the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky and on April 1, 1901 promoted to general from infantry.

The fifteen-year service in the Kingdom of Poland gave Parents the opportunity not only to take a closer look, but also to study Russian-Polish relations, the Uniate question, the Jewish question that had already arisen about the allocation of the Kholm province , and the German colonization of Poland . On June 5, 1902, Parents was appointed to the Minister of War, in 1904 he received diamond signs for the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, on January 5, 1906 he was appointed Peterhof commandant, and in early 1914 he was dismissed.

Parentsov wrote memoirs about the war of 1877-1878 and the first year of the independent existence of the Bulgarian Principality under the general title "From the Past" ("At War", "Horrible Days", "Calm" and "In Bulgaria"), recognized by the Imperial Academy of Sciences as worthy Makaryevskaya and Akhmatov Prizes . Parentsov also published a number of articles in Russian Disabled , Voice of Truth, Military Collection , Russian Antiquity, and New Time . Parentsov’s archive is kept in the Manuscript Fund of the Russian National Library .

Parentsov was a fellow chairman of the Slavic Charitable Society, a member of the Imperial Russian Military-Historical Society, the Society of Adherents of Russian-Historical Education in memory of Emperor Alexander III , the society of adherents of military knowledge, the Outskirts Society and the Galician Society. The city of Lovech in Bulgaria elected Parentsov as his honorary citizen, and the city administration of Sofia named him a street in the very center of the Bulgarian capital.

Since October 29, 1873 he was married to the daughter of P.D. Diaghilev, Julia Pavlovna Diaghileva.

He died on August 25, 1914 in St. Petersburg .

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