Baron Lev Aleksandrovich Fredericks ( January 18, 1839 - September 23, 1914 ) - infantry general from the Fredericks clan, in 1876-99. Russian military agent in France .
| Lev Aleksandrovich Fredericks | |
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| Date of Birth | January 18, 1839 |
| Date of death | September 23, 1914 (75 years old) |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Rank | General from Infantry |
| Awards and prizes | |
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Biography
Hereditary military, landowner of Karsun district . Born in the family of Lieutenant General Baron Alexander Alexandrovich Fredericks (1798-1859) and his wife Daria Alekseevna (1817-1911), daughter of Lieutenant General A. I. Bartolomey .
Together with his brother Alexander, he graduated from the Page Corps . June 26, 1856 entered the service of the ensign in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment . According to the memoirs of a contemporary [1] :
| The 17-year-old Baron Fredericks, just made from pages to officers, was small in stature, blond, handsome, with an open, noble face and graceful manners, this, I will not say young man, but just a cute child, seemed, by appearance, too young for officer epaulettes, as a result, on the streets, people, taking him not for a simple officer, took off their hats in front of him. |
In 1861 he graduated from the 1st category of the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy of the General Staff . Member of the Polish campaign of 1863 .
From 13.05 . 1865 to 12.10 . 1876 adjutant of the Minister of War . From 12.10 . 1876 to 29.7 . 1899 military agent in Paris. During the war with the Turks, he criticized the frankness of Russian officers in front of correspondents of foreign newspapers [2] . In 1877 he took part in the founding of the Society for Mutual Assistance and Charity of Russian Artists in Paris [3] .
Since July 29, 1899, the honorary guardian of the St. Petersburg presence of the Board of Trustees of the institutions of the Empress Maria . Died 23.9 . 1914 . It is excluded from the lists of the dead on December 18 . 1914 .
Leo Fredericks was married to Varvara Andreevna Arapova (1843-1903), sister of I.A. and N.A. Arapovs , had a son, Alexander (1863) and daughter Elizabeth (1869 — after 1916), since 1898 the maid of honor of the court. The portrait of the Arapov sisters by I.K. Makarov is kept in the Penza Regional Art Gallery .
Rewards
| Military ranks | |||
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| date | Rank | Note | |
| 08/26 . 1856 (v. 28.08 . 1856 ) | Ensign | ||
| 04.17 . 1862 (Art.) | Second lieutenant | ||
| 12.05 . 1863 (Art.) | Lieutenant | ||
| 03/27 . 1866 (Art.) | Headquarters captain | ||
| 04/28 . 1870 (Art.) | Captain | ||
| 08/30 . 1874 (Art.) | Colonel | ||
| 08/30 . 1884 (Art.) | Major general | in contrast | |
| 08/30 . 1894 (Art.) | Lieutenant general | in contrast | |
| 1896 | Adjutant General | ||
| 12/6 . 1904 (Art.) | General from Infantry | in contrast | |
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1863);
- Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree (1866);
- Order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd degree with the imperial crown (1872);
- Order of St. Vladimir , 4th degree (1876);
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (1882);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1887);
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1890);
- Order of St. Anne 1st degree (1896);
- Order of St. Vladimir , 2nd degree (1900);
- Order of the White Eagle (08.26.1906);
- Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (04/18/1910, diamond signs - 04/06/1914).
- 50th Anniversary of the Immaculate Service .
Foreign
- Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 3rd degree (1871)
- French Order of the Legion of Honor of the Commander's Cross (1875)
- French Legion of Honor great officer (1888)
- Bulgarian Order of St. Alexander 1st degree (1896)
- Italian Order of the Saints of Mauritius and Lazarus 1st degree (1900)
- Persian Order of Leo and Sun 1st Degree (1900)
- French Legion of Honor Knight Grand Cross (1908)
Notes
- ↑ S. M. Zagoskin . Memories // Historical Bulletin. 1900.V. 80.- S. 810.
- ↑ Military secrets in open media
- ↑ E. Lingenauber. Relations between Russia and France in the fields of culture and politics until 1881 .
Sources
- List to the generals by seniority . Compiled on 04/15/1914. Petrograd, 1914;
- The highest orders in the military department; Government Gazette, 1914 (obituary).
- List of the General Staff. Fixed on 06/01/1914. Petrograd, 1914
- The list of adjutant generals, major generals and rear admirals of the retinue of His Vel-va and the aide-adjutants by seniority on 03/10/1914. SPb., 1914. VP 1914.
Links
- Fredericks, Lev Alexandrovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".