Tsytovich, Vladimir Nikolaevich

Born in Warsaw into the family of Lieutenant-General Nikolai Stepanovich Tsytovich ; the nephew of the generals E. S. Tsytovich , P. S. Tsytovich and V. S. Tsytovich ; cousin of State Counselor E. P. Tsytovich , General N. P. Tsytovich, and Colonels V. V. Tsytovich and V. V. Tsytovich .

In 1877 , after graduating from the Nikolaev Engineering School , he served as a second lieutenant in the Russian-Turkish war . In 1880, the lieutenant . In 1886, the staff captain . In 1889 he commanded a company . In 1892 he was promoted to captain

On December 19 of the same year, for the difference, he was transferred to the Life Guards by the captain and appointed an officer-tutor. On April 2, 1895, he was promoted to captain of the guard and was appointed company commander of the Nikolaev engineering school .

In 1900 he was promoted to colonel for distinction and appointed to be at the disposal of the General Engineering Department . On July 14, 1902, he was appointed Commander of the 11th Emperor Nicholas I, 1st Battalion . In 1905 he was dismissed from service with the production of major generals .

Being a retired, he participated in the translation of books at the publishing house of his wife’s brother, a well - known editor and publisher, D. E. Zhukovsky . In 1909 he attended the wedding of the latter with the poetess A. K. Gertsyk in Paris , playing the role of a “wedding general” ^[1] , according to her playful remark. Tsytovich was a witness on the part of the groom and the poet V. M. Voloshin on the part of the bride ^[2] .

In 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, returned to service. From 1915 to 1917 he was in the reserve ranks at the Office of the Inspector of the engineering part of the Petrograd Military District . Since 1917, retired.

Member of the Civil War on the side of the White movement in Eastern Russia , in the army of Admiral A. V. Kolchak . From 1918 to 1922, after the occupation of Yekaterinburg by troops of the Siberian Army , V.N. Tsytovich enlisted in the staff of the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff , performing the position of assistant librarian.

After the defeat of the White Army remained in the homeland. He lived in the Crimea , where he died in 1941 .

• Second Lieutenant (April 16, 1878);
• Lieutenant (August 6, 1880);
• Headquarters Captain (July 27, 1886);
• Captain (August 30, 1892);
• Headquarters Captain Guard (December 19, 1892) - "For the difference in service" ;
• Captain of the Guard (April 2, 1895);
• Colonel Guard (December 6, 1900) - "For the difference in service" ;
• Major General (1905)

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1880);
• Order of St. Anne 3rd degree (1887);
• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1893);
• Order of St. Anne 2nd degree (1895);
• Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree (1898);
• Order of St. Vladimir of the 3rd degree (VP of April 3, 1916)

Medals:

• Medal "In Memory of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878"
• Medal "In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III"

He was married to the daughter of Infantry General Yevgeny Mikhailovich Zhukovsky - Lyubov

Children:

• Maria (1898)
• Eugene (1890-1975)
• Alexey (1893–1983) - Senior Lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Fleet , hero of the First World War , commander of the branch of the Black Sea Fleet patrol vessels division . In 1917, for his heroism, he was awarded the St. George Cross with a laurel branch for officers of the 4th degree (No. 1101821). Since 1918, the officer of the All- Soviet Union of People's Rights in A. Denikin , then in P.N.Wrangel . After the defeat of the White movement, he emigrated to England , the captain of the British fleet.

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• Tsytovich, Vladimir Nikolaevich (Neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War." ;
• List of senior generals . Corrected on July 10, St. Petersburg., 1916;
• The list of colonels by seniority. Corrected on January 1. SPb., 1905 ;
• Natalia Layndinen website. Correspondence of Adelaide Gertsyk-Zhukovskaya Kazimirovna
• The Gertsyk-Zhukovsky family in life and literature