Count Konstantin Nikolayevich Litke (1873-1915) - Colonel of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment , hero of the First World War.
| Konstantin Nikolaevich Litke | ||||
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| Date of Birth | February 1 (13), 1873 | |||
| Date of death | September 30 ( October 13 ) 1915 (42 years old) | |||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||
| Rank | Colonel | |||
| Part | Transfiguration Life Guards Regiment | |||
| Battles / wars | World War I | |||
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Biography
Lutheran. The son of a real state adviser to Count Nikolai Fyodorovich Litke (1839–1887), grandson of the President of the Academy of Sciences Count F.P. Litke .
At the end of the Page Corps, in 1893 he was released from the pages in the second lieutenants of the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment . He commanded a company of the Preobrazhensky Regiment for 7 years and 10 months. August 26, 1912 promoted to colonel.
Ranks: lieutenant (1897), staff captain (1901), captain (1905), colonel (1912).
He entered the First World War with his regiment. He was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree
| For the fact that in the battle of August 19, 1915 at the Gudulinsky Heights, personally, in rifle chains , leading the advance of his battalion, he knocked out the enemy from a number of consecutive positions and, despite the loss of all officers and 75% of the lower ranks, fulfilled the assigned the task, having occupied the fortified line and held it against the superior forces of the Germans, which contributed to a decisive turn of the battle in our favor. |
and granted by St. George's Arms
| For the fact that on August 21, 1914, commanding the head detachment - the 4th battalion, subsequently reinforced by the 2nd and 3rd battalions, under strong artillery, machine gun and rifle fire, he captured the heights of the village. Valentinov and the forest between Valentinov and Kshonov and knocked out the enemy from there, thereby contributing to the advancement of the neighboring combat area. |
He died in battle on September 30, 1915.
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1906);
- Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. (1909);
- Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (VP 3.02.1912);
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (VP 6.12.1912);
- swords and bow to the Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (VP 28.10.1914);
- St. George's Arms (VP 03.02.1915);
- swords for the Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (VP 09.04.1915);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. with swords (VP 13.05.1915);
- swords to the Order of St. Stanislav 2nd art. (VP 05.24.1916);
- swords and bow to the Order of St. Anne 3rd art. (August 9, 1916);
- Order of St. George 4th Art. (VP 11/26/1916).
Sources
- Freiman O.R. Page in 183 (1711-1894). Biographies of former pages with portraits. - Friedrichshamn, 1894 .-- S. 745.
- Litke, Konstantin Nikolaevich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".