Zakhari Aslanovich Mdivani ( September 5, 1867 - April 18, 1933 ) - Major General of the Suite .
Zakharii Aslanovich Mdivani | ||||||||||
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Date of Birth | September 5, 1867 | |||||||||
Place of Birth | Batumi , Russian Empire | |||||||||
Date of death | April 18, 1933 (65 years) | |||||||||
Place of death | Paris , France | |||||||||
Affiliation | Russian empire | |||||||||
Type of army | Infantry | |||||||||
Years of service | 1884–1917 | |||||||||
Rank | Major General Svita (1914) | |||||||||
Commanded | 13th Erivan Grenadier Regiment | |||||||||
Battles / Wars | Russian-Japanese War World War I | |||||||||
Awards and prizes |
The commander of the 13th Leib-Grenadier Erivan Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich Regiment , the Chief of the Caucasus Military District , the Military Minister of the Georgian Republic, the head of the Batumi region and the military commander of the city of Batum (1917-18), the Head of the Union of the Imperial Society of Leib-Erivantsev abroad.
Biography
Worship
Orthodox Christian .
Education
He graduated from the Tiflis Cadet Corps and the 2nd Military Konstantinovskoe School (1886), from where he was issued as a second lieutenant in the Warsaw fortress artillery .
Service in the Imperial Army
Warsaw fortress artillery. Later he served in the Caucasian Grenadier Artillery Brigade . The lieutenant (art. 07.08.1889). Clerk of the artillery battery . Headquarters captain (article 25.07.1895).
After graduating from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff on the 1st category in 1898 - the captain (article 17.05.1898; for distinction in the sciences). Consisted of the Caucasian Military District. Transferred to the General Staff 04/10/1899. Assistant Senior Adjutant of the Caucasus VO Headquarters (04/10/1899-04.09.1902). The census command of the company was serving in the 3rd Caucasian Infantry Battalion (10.11.1900-10.11.1901).
Chief of Staff of the Mikhailovsky Fortress (09/04/1902-02.06.1908). Lieutenant Colonel (Art. 06.12.1902). Colonel (art. 12/06/1906). The census command of the battalion was serving in the 130th Kherson Infantry Regiment (20.06.-20.10.1907). Chief of Staff of the 39th Infantry Division (02.06.-05.12.1908). Chief of Staff of the 13th Infantry Division (12/05/1908-07.07.1910). Chief of Staff of the Sevastopol Fortress (07.07.1910-31.05.1912). He was seconded to the artillery (15.06.-14.08.1911). The commander of the 13th l Grenadier Regiment of the Erivan (31.05.1912-07.04.1915). Out-adjutant (Pr. 06/29/1913). Major General (d. 01/18/1915; art. 18/01/1915; for military distinctions) with admission to His Majesty's retinue.
Then he was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasian Army (07.04.-18.07.1915). Chief of Staff of the 4th Caucasian Army Corps (07/18/1915-20.03.1917). Commander of the 39th Infantry Division (March 20-August 11, 1917). The chief of the Caucasus VO (11.08 .- ??. 09.1917). He served in the Military Ministry of the Georgian Republic, participated in the organization of the Georgian army. Governor of the Batumi region. After establishing Soviet power in Georgia , he left the country. According to a summary of INO OGPU from 09/08/1924, he was in Constantinople with the intention to penetrate the USSR
Emigration
In exile in France, he lived in Paris. He headed the Union of Life Erivans . He called himself a prince, but in the Russian Empire and in the Georgian kingdom his last name was never approved in princely dignity. (Zakhary Aslanovich once sarcastically remarked that he was the only person who inherited the princely title from children, and not vice versa). He died in Paris .
Family
- Brother - Colonel Konstantin Aslanovich.
- Wife - Elizaveta Viktorovna Sobolevskaya . In the period from October 1914 to December 1916, met with Grigory Rasputin, was part of his close circle. [one]
- Children - Nina (1900-1987), David (1902-1984), Sergey (Serzh) (1903-1936), Rusudan (1905-1938), Alexey (Alexis) (1908-1935). The Mdivani brothers, calling themselves “princes”, were best known as “Marrying Mdivanis” - a group of marriage speculators who married rich heirs and movie stars.
- David Zakharjevich Mdivani (1902-1984), was born in Batumi, the eldest of the brothers. In 1926, he married a Hollywood dancer Mae Murray (Mae Murray), who was 20 years older than him. Divorced her in 1933 after her bankruptcy. After the divorce, David became friends with French actress Arletty. In 1944 he married a rich American Virginia Sinclair, owner of the company Sinclair Oil. From this marriage had a son.
- Alexey Zakharievich Mdivani (1908-1935), was born in Batumi. The first marriage was married to an American Louise Astor Van Alen (Louise Astor Van Alen), and the second - to the heiress of the state of the Woolwort family Barbara Hutton. Having divorced her, entered into a civil marriage with Baroness M. Thiessen de Bornemisza. He died in a car accident on August 11, 1935 in Spain, in the town of Palamos.
- Sergey Zakharveich Mdivani (1903–1936) was born in Batumi. In 1927 he married the Hollywood movie star Paul Negri (Pola Negri, 1894–1987), divorced in 1931. The second marriage was with Mary McCormick, an opera singer (soprano) from the Chicago Civic Opera, from 1931 to 1933. February 1936 married the late wife of his late brother Alexei, Louise Astor Van Alen (Louise Astor Van Alen), March 15, 1936 died under the hooves of his own horse during a polo game in Florida.
Awards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1902);
- Order of St. Anne 3rd degree (1904);
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1906);
- Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree (1908);
- Order of St. Vladimir of the 3rd degree (1911; 02.03.1912);
- Medal "In Memory of the 300th Anniversary of the Reign of the House of Romanov" (1913);
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree with swords (VP 28.06.1915);
- Order of St. Anne 1st Degree (GP 16.02.1916);
- Order of St. Vladimir 2nd degree (GP 10.06.1916).
Sources
- ↑ Mosolov A.A. At the court of the emperor. - Riga: Owl, 1938.
- Leib Erivan in the Great War. Materials for the history of the regiment in the processing of the regimental historical commission edited by K. Popov . Paris, 1959. 244 p.
- Memoirs of the Caucasian Grenadier, 1914-1920. Belgrade, Russian Printing House, 1925. Popov Konstantin. Sergeyevich.
Links
- Website Russian Imperial Army
- Website Adjutant
- Mdivani, Zakhary Aslanovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
- Site Chronos - Environment Nicholas II