Mikhail Nikolaevich Levitov ( 1893 - December 15, 1982 , Paris ) - member of the White movement in southern Russia , colonel, commander of the 2nd Kornilovsky regiment . The author of books on the history of the Kornilov regiment .
| Mikhail Nikolaevich Levitov | |
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| Date of Birth | September 30, 1893 |
| Place of Birth | Ryazan Province |
| Date of death | December 15, 1982 (89 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire White movement |
| Type of army | infantry |
| Years of service | 1914-1920 |
| Rank | the colonel |
| Commanded | 2nd Kornilovsky shock regiment |
| Battles / Wars | World War I Civil War |
| Awards and prizes |      |
Biography
Came from the old spiritual family of the Ryazan diocese. The son of a priest in the village of Golovinshchina , Ranenburg district, Nikolai Alekseevich Levitov and his wife Alexandra Evfimevna Nazaretova. The great-nephew of Bishop Vasily (Levitov) . Elder brother Nikolai Nikolaevich (1891-1969) - Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Microbiologist.
He received his secondary education at the Ryazan Theological Seminary , where he graduated from four classes and was dismissed by petition in June 1914 [1] . Then he entered the Vilnius Military School , at the end of the crash course on December 1, 1914 he was promoted to ensign with enrollment in the army infantry. Upon arrival at the front, the 178th Venden Infantry Regiment was determined, in the ranks of which it participated in the First World War . For differences in cases against the enemy he was awarded the Order of St. 4th degree Vladimir with swords and bow (VP 31.05.1915) [2] . He was promoted to lieutenant .
In the Civil War he participated in the White movement in the south of Russia . At the beginning of 1918 he arrived in Rostov , where he joined the officer partisan detachment of Colonel Simanovsky , already in February poured into the Kornilovsky shock regiment of the Volunteer Army . He participated in the 1st Kuban campaign as an ordinary in the 1st officer company of the Kornilov regiment, and then as a sergeant major in an officer company. In the autumn of 1918 he was seconded to the Crimea in a convoy for the protection of the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna . In July 1919 he was appointed commander of the 1st battalion of the newly formed 2nd Kornilov regiment . From November 10, 1919, he temporarily served as commander of the 3rd Kornilov regiment , then was an assistant commander of the 2nd Kornilov regiment. March 13, 1920 by one order made from lieutenants to headquarters captains, captains and lieutenant colonels . On June 15, 1920 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Kornilovsky regiment, and in the same month he was promoted to colonel .
During the First World War and the Civil War, he was wounded 8 times (see stripes). On October 7 (20), 1920, he was awarded the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker . On December 18, 1920 - at the headquarters of the 2nd battalion of the Kornilovsky regiment in Gallipoli , from December 24, 1921 he was appointed commander of the same battalion. He was part of the Kornilovsky Regiment in Bulgaria until the fall of 1925.
Since 1929 in exile in France. In the 1960s, he headed the association of ranks of the Kornilovsky regiment, and was also the chairman of the Gallipoli Society . He collected materials on the history of the Kornilov units, prepared a book "Materials for the history of the Kornilov shock regiment."
He died on December 15, 1982 in Paris . Buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve de Bois . He was married to Varvara Sergeyevna Vasilyeva (1900-1988), a student at the Rostov Medical Institute, a pioneer, and a former mercy sister in the Kornilovsky shock regiment during the Civil War. On April 17, 1921, their daughter Irina was born to them.
Notes
- ↑ Ryazan diocesan sheets , No. 13-14. The department is official. - Ryazan, 1914 .-- S. 554.
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 1293 // Scout / Edited by V.A. Berezovsky . - Pg. Type Trenke and Fyusno, 1915 .-- S. 869 .
Literature
- Levitov M. Kornilovtsy in the Donetsk basin // Armed forces in the South of Russia. January — June 1919. / Doctor of History S.V. Volkov . - M .: Tsentrpoligraf , 2003. - T. 17. - S. 35-61. - (Russia forgotten and unknown. White movement in Russia). - 3000 copies - ISBN 5-95-24-0666-1 .
- Levitov MN Materials for the history of the Kornilov shock regiment. - Paris, 1974.
- SchmaglitR. G. White movement. 900 biographies of the largest representatives of the Russian military abroad / Ed. I. Trofimova . - M .: Zebra E, 2006 .-- 352 p. - ISBN 5-94663-202-7 .
- White army. Photo portraits of Russian officers. Album. - Paris, YMCA-press, 2007.
- Rutych N. Biographical Directory of the High Ranks of the Volunteer Army and Armed Forces of the South of Russia. Materials for the history of the White movement. - M. , 2002.
- Shaiditsky V. I. In the service of the Fatherland. - San Francisco, 1963. - SS. 375, 385, 476.
- Tveritinov Aleksey From World War I to the White Movement. The fate of the White Guard. (To the 100th anniversary of the Great War)