Schmidt, Vladimir Petrovich (captain of the 1st rank)

Born March 1, 1883 in the family of a naval officer, later Rear Admiral, mayor and chief of the Berdyansk port Peter Petrovich Schmidt (1828-1888), half-brother of Lieutenant Schmidt . Orthodox. He knew French and English.

Family: single (1904). Married, 1 son (1914), (1916). Wife Nadezhda Alekseevna, son Vladimir, stepson Alexei Sergeyevich Golovachev (US Army officer).

• In service since 1899.
• In 1901 he was awarded the badge in memory of the 200th anniversary of the Marine Corps.
• May 6, 1902 - Feldfebel . He graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps 4th on the list and by the Highest Order for the Maritime Department No. 403 produced by exam in midshipmen.
• In 1902-1903 he was the commander of the EDB Victory . In overseas voyages: 1902 and 1903 - at the Pobeda EDB.
• In 1903 - the junior staff officer of the Kyrgyz Republic "Rurik" .
• From November 17, 1903 to 1904. By Order of the Maritime Department No. 199 he was appointed junior flag officer of the headquarters of the head of the Pacific squadron.
• March 9, 1904. By order of His Imperial Highness Admiral General for the Sea Department No. 52, he was appointed flag officer of the fleet commander in the Pacific Ocean.
• March 14, 1904. By order of the Deputy of His Imperial Majesty No. 253, it was appointed, “For displaying special courage, military valor and in awarding excellent courage during the repulsion of a sudden mine attack on the Pacific squadron on the 26th and in the battle on January 27th with the Japanese fleet,” rewarding with the Order of St. Anne 4th Art. with the inscription "For courage."
• March 16, 1904 he was appointed flag officer of the fleet commander in the Pacific Ocean and the naval camping headquarters of the governor E.I.
• March 31, 1904 saved during the death of the EDB Petropavlovsk .
• March 31, 1904 "for the difference in cases against the enemy" was promoted to lieutenant.
• In 1904, Schmidt (3rd).
• In 1904 he was in the 14th naval carriage.
• In 1904, he was a flag officer in the headquarters of the fleet commander in the Pacific Ocean and the naval camping headquarters of the governor of His Imperial Majesty in the Far East.
• On April 7, 1904, the General Public Service Circular for No. 90 announced the appointment made by order of the governor E.I.V. in the Far East as a flag officer of the naval camping headquarters of the governor.
• On May 10, 1904, the Highest approval was given to the award of the Order of St. Anne, 4th Art., Appointed by the Viceroy of His Imperial Majesty in the Far East. with the inscription "For courage."
• In 1904, he was seriously wounded in a bayonet battle on the land front.
• December 20, 1904 captured by the Japanese.
• In 1906 he was awarded a silver medal with a bow on the St. George and Alexander Ribbon in memory of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
• In 1906, after the revolt on the cruiser "Ochakov" in order to dissociate himself from his half-brother, Lieutenant Pyotr Schmidt , the "state criminal" and the shame that fell upon his family, was listed under the name of Schmitt .
• In 1907 he was assigned to mine officers of the 1st rank.
• In 1907 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav , 3rd art.
• In 1910, the right was granted to wear the Golden Badge to complete the full course of sciences of the Naval Cadet Corps.
• In 1910 he graduated from the hydrographic department of the Nikolaev Maritime Academy .
• In 1910, the right to wear a silver sign on the completion of the course of sciences of the Nikolaev Maritime Academy was granted.
• March 25, 1912 promoted to captain of the 2nd rank. As part of the Black Sea naval crew.
• From April 12, 1912 to 1914 - senior officer of the Kyrgyz Republic "Cahul" .
• December 6, 1912 awarded the Order of St. Anne , 3rd art.
• In 1913 he was awarded the light bronze medal in memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty .
• For 1914 - Schmidt (2nd).
• In 1914 he was awarded the badge for the defenders of the Port Arthur fortress.
• On April 14, 1914 he was appointed the flagship mine officer of the headquarters of the commander of the Black Sea naval forces.
• January 19, 1915 was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. with swords.
• In 1915, the right was granted to wear a light bronze medal in memory of the 200th anniversary of the Gangut victory .
• In 1916 or 1917, he was a geography teacher at the Marine Corps (apparently in Sevastopol).
• July 28, 1917 promoted to captain of the 1st rank on the line.
• In 1917 - the flagship mine officer of the headquarters of the fleet commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
• After 1917 - in the Armed Forces of the South of Russia .
• Evacuated until the fall of 1920 from Sevastopol to Turkey, by the summer of 1921 in Constantinople . In Constantinople, the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, the naval agent (Captain 1st Rank Rennenkampf) and the Union of Russian Disabled were then located. The Russian captain over the port was Captain 1st Rank Vladimir P. Schmidt.
• On January 1, 1922, he was a member of the Council of the Union of Naval Officers in Constantinople.
• In exile in the USA .
• Since September 1925 - a hydrograph and oceanographer in New York, a teacher at Columbia University .
• Since 1926 - Chairman of the Board and President of the Parish Corporation of the Russian Church of Christ the Savior in New York.
• On January 31, 1944 and January 20, 1949 - a member of the Society of Former Russian Naval Officers in America.
• He died in New York on July 19, 1965. He was buried in the cemetery of St. Tikhonov Monastery (Mount Canaan, PA).

• Order of St. Anne 4th Art. with the inscription "For courage" (1904)
• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1907)
• Order of St. Anne 3rd Art. (1912)
• Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd Art. with swords (1915)

• Schmidt V.P. The death of the squadron battleship "Petropavlovsk". // "Marine Collection", 1911. - No. 9.
• Schmidt V.P. From the memoirs of a mine officer on the battleship Petropavlovsk. - SPb. , 1913.
• Schmidt V.P. Admiral S.O. Makarov. // Russian Maritime Foreign Library. - New York, 1934. - No. 31.
• Memoirs of “Admiral Makarov in Port Arthur”, MH, vol. II, No. 1, 1943.
• In the years 1918-1932 - articles on marine topics in the newspaper.

• Melnikov R. M. "Rurik" was the first. - S. 245.
• List of lieutenants and midshipmen. (Corrected on July 2.) - St. Petersburg. , 1904. - Part 2.
• List of personnel of fleet ships, combatant and administrative institutions of the Maritime Department. (... January 1914) - St. Petersburg. , 1914 .-- S. 133.
• Volkov S.V. Officers of the Navy and the Maritime Department. - S. 535.
• Martyrologist V.V. Lobytsyna. - S. 149.
• Ezh-1916. - S. 148.

• Volkov S. V. "The tragedy of Russian officers"
• TEMPLE OF THE SAVIOR CHRIST IN NEW YORK: A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH