Lipinsky, Alexander Iosifovich

From the nobility of the Mogilev province. He was educated in the 1st Moscow Cadet Corps , from where in 1848 he was promoted to ensign of the Life Guards of the Pavlovsky Regiment for excellent successes. As part of the guard troops, he participated in a campaign of 1849 to the western borders of Russia, but was not involved in cases against the Hungarians . In 1854 and 1855 he was among the troops assigned to defend the coast of the Baltic Sea due to the possible landing of the Anglo-French landing.

As a lieutenant, he entered the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff and at the end of the course in 1859 he was transferred to the General Staff with production as staff captains and was sent to the Simbirsk province to compile a statistical description of it. In 1868, "Description of the Simbirsk Province" was published in St. Petersburg as a separate two-volume publication.

In 1864, he was appointed lieutenant colonel to the chief of staff of the 56th Infantry Division, and in November 1869 he took command of the 35th Bryansk Infantry Regiment , at the head of which he took part in the outbreak of the Russian-Turkish war .

With the declaration of war, the Bryansk regiment, being part of the 8th Army Corps of General Radetzky , went to the Danube and occupied the island on the night of June 14-15, 1877 during the crossing, to cover Russian artillery. As a reward of courage and discretion, Lipinsky received on August 4 a golden saber with the inscription "For courage . "

Upon entering Bulgaria, he was ordered to move with a regiment to Tarnovo , and from there to Shipka . After the retreat of General Gurko, a handful of retreating side detachment reached for the mass of the wounded from the right-flank position. Seeing this, Colonel Lipinsky rushed onto the highway with twenty fighters still standing near him as a reserve and stopped the retreating people. A mixed crowd of Bryansk, Orlovtsy and Bulgarian combatants, only about 150 people, turned back and rushed to the abandoned lodgements. Slightly wounded also joined this handful, having voluntarily come running from the dressing station.

Returning to the round battery in the lodgement, in order to reassure and encourage people, Colonel Lipinsky ordered them to stop volleys, since the Turks, retreating again, no longer climbed to Russian positions, and he reiterated bluntly that the deviations in no case it can not be. This handful of soldiers finally decided to die, and answered him with a loud encouragement and a cry of "Hurray."

At the same time, the commander of the 8th Corps, Lieutenant General Radetsky, arrived at Shipka. Stopping two miles behind, he immediately directed along the gorge to the mountain, to the sound of shots, three companies of the 16th Infantry Battalion, arrived in time for the scene of action. Noticing this, Colonel Lipinsky ordered the renewal of fire in one gulp along the entire line and allowed the first two hundred hunters from the rifle brigade to occupy the free lodges, that is, those where all people had already been completely killed.

After the delivery of cartridges, volley fire continued for about half an hour, while three companies of shooters, sent by Radetznm, managed to get along the gorge to the forest edge occupied by the Turks, and there, opening strong fire, moved into the girth of the enemy's left flank. The movement of these companies soon forced to completely cease fire from the Russian right-flank lodgements, since otherwise there was a risk of falling into their own. It was necessary to immediately support the onslaught of these companies, and therefore Colonel Lipinsky ordered the 11th company of the Bryansk regiment, which defended the front lodgement, to immediately move forward to attack. The Turks, struck by such a turn of affairs, began to quickly clear the Wooded Mountain.

On August 9, he was in a position at the pass and took his regiment North Mountain and the entire area to Mount St. Nicholas. August 11, took command of the right flank at Mount St. Nicholas. He was shell-shocked in battle, but in the heat of battle did not notice it. On August 13, General Radetzky ordered him to attack the fortification on Lesnaya Gora, brilliantly executed by him. For this case, Lipinsky received the Order of St. August 22 George 4th degree.

Having received a new appointment as the chief of staff of the 9th army corps , he, upon the surrender of the regiment, went to the duty station near Plevna , and by the Highest Order of September 10, 1877 he was made for the distinction as major general , with leaving the General Staff and in his post.
Consisting of this position, he died in July 1882.

His brother Vasily (11/3/1835 - 12/20/1902) was a lieutenant general and chairman of the General Staff.

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