Geisman, Platon Aleksandrovich

The son of an economist and polyglot A.F. Geisman .

After graduating from the Chisinau Gymnasium with a gold medal, he entered the 2nd Konstantinovsky Military School , from which in 1872 he was released as ensign to the St. Petersburg Life Guards Regiment .

In 1876 he participated in the Serbo-Montenegrin-Turkish war (he was the commander of the battalion of the Serbian police in the Timoko-Moravian army, General M. G. Chernyaev ) and in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. : participated in hostilities near Plevna, in crossing the Balkans and in several battles and skirmishes of the detachment of General Gurko, for the difference in which he was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the 4th degree and the Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree with a sword and bow.

In 1878-1881 he studied at the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff , which he graduated in the 1st category. He served in the General Staff at the troops and as a teacher of tactics at the Elisavetgrad cavalry school.

In 1892, for his dissertation: “The parallel between the Prussians invasion of Bohemia in 1757 and 1866. The reasons for the failure of the Austrians at the Bohemian theater of war in 1866” received the title of Extraordinary Professor of the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff, and from 1894 to 1907 he was an ordinary professor military history at this academy. In 1900 he was promoted to major general, in 1902 he was awarded the title of Honored Professor.

In 1907 he was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed head of the 44th Infantry Division , and 03/31/1911 - commander of the 16th Army Corps .

From April 14, 1913, he was a general from infantry, and since January 1915 he was the chief commander of the Kazan Military District .

After the October Revolution, he remained in Petrograd, taught at St. Petersburg University - privat-docent of Petrograd University; also worked in the Unified State Archival Fund - an employee of the 3rd section.

He died on January 27, 1919 in Petrograd .

P. A. Geisman is one of the authors of the Polovtsev Russian Biographical Dictionary .

• The Slavic-Turkish struggle of 1876-1877-1878 and its significance in the history of the development of the Eastern question. Part 1-2. - St. Petersburg, 1887-1889.
• A short history of the history of martial art in the middle and new centuries. Part 1-3. - SPb., 1893-1896
  • The history of military art in the Middle Ages . - 1893. - 160 s.
  • Atlas for the short course ... / Chertil N.I. Sednev. - 1893. - 15 l. ill., cards.
  • The history of military art in the new centuries before the century of Louis XIV and Peter the Great inclusively. Prince 1. Military art in Western Europe. - 1894. - 164 p.
  • The history of military art in the new centuries in the era of Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. Prince 1. Military art in Western Europe. - SPb .: tip-lit. A.E. Landau, 1896 .-- 311 p.
• Defense of Sevastopol. - SPb., 1893
• Experience in researching the tactics of mass armies. - St. Petersburg, 1894.
• Head of Detachement of the Army of Empress Catherine the Great, Lieutenant Colonel Geisman . - SPb .: type. Ch. control Udelov, 1895.
• A few thoughts on the relationship of strategy to politics. - St. Petersburg, 1895.
• War, its significance in the life of the people and the state . - SPb., 1897.
• Count L.N. Tolstoy and M.P. Dragomirov. - SPb., 1897.
• Where should Prussia begin to prepare for its successes in 1866 and 1870-1871. - SPb., 1897.
• The beginning of the end of Poland. - SPb., 1897.
• "The End of Poland" and Suvorov . - SPb., 1900
• Slavic Crusade: (On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the war of 1877-1878) - St. Petersburg, 1902. - 48 p.
• General base. A brief historical outline of its origin and development, vol. 1, part 1, St. Petersburg. 1903
• The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, St. Petersburg, 1903.
• A Short Course on the History of Military Art in the Middle and New Ages, 2nd ed., St. Petersburg, 1907.
• Count Peter Ivanovich Panin (together with A.N. Dubovsky)

Under the pseudonym Anti-Sarmaticus, he published:

• From Berlin and Vienna to St. Petersburg and Moscow and back . - Elisavetgrad, 1891 (2nd edition, St. Petersburg, 1893);
• The German railway network in terms of the strategic deployment of the army (St. Petersburg, 1892).

In addition, in the anniversary edition “The Centenary of the Ministry of War 1802-1902” (General Staff. - Vol. II, St. Petersburg, 1910), Geisman compiled “A Historical Overview of the Emergence and Development of the General Staff in Russia from 1825 to 1902”.

His articles were published at various times in many magazines.

• Geisman, Platon Aleksandrovich // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
• Geismans // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Kavtaradze A.G. Geisman Platon Aleksandrovich // Big Soviet Encyclopedia. - 3rd edition.

• Geisman, Platon Aleksandrovich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".