Gedeonov, Ivan Mikhailovich

Born on January 6, 1816 in the noble family of Gideonovs . Educated at the First Moscow Cadet Corps.

Since 1835 he left the ensign in the Volyn Life Guards Regiment . In 1836 he was promoted to lieutenant .

From 1838 he entered the Academy of the General Staff . In 1839, promoted to lieutenant .

In 1841, after graduating from the Academy, he was counted among the General Staff .

In April 19, 1842, he was promoted to headquarters with transfer to the General Staff. On November 1 of the same year, he was promoted to captain of the General Staff.

In 1849 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel . From 1850 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Imperial Academy of the General Staff , and at the same time from 1851 an inspector of the classes of the Second Cadet Corps.

In 1853 he was promoted to colonel . From 1854 he was appointed Chairman of the Land Survey Office with a transfer to the Land Survey Office.

In 1857, he was promoted to major general , appointed a member of the Military Training Committee, assistant director of the Land Survey Building and at the same time since 1858 was a member of the Council of the Minister of State Property .

From 1862 he was appointed director of the Mezhevoy Corps . In 1864, promoted to lieutenant general . From 1864 he was a fellow of the chairman of the Red Cross Society.

In 1865 he was appointed as a senator in the Senate Surveillance Department.

From 1876 ​​he was an assistant to the chief trustee of the Imperial philanthropic society .

In 1882 he was promoted to infantry generals . Since 1883, he was a member of the Award Commission under his own E. I. V. Office .

From 1886 he became the senator of the General Assembly of the Judicial and Land Survey Departments of the Senate.

From 1887 he became a full member of the Imperial Human-Loving Society, and at the same time since 1892 a member of the Committee to consider submissions to the Highest Awards.

In 1902 he was awarded the highest order of the Russian Empire with the Order of St. Andrew the First Called .

He died on January 20, 1907 in St. Petersburg from lobar pneumonia. He was buried on January 23, 1907 in the Resurrection Novodevichy Convent. He was married, had a daughter.

Deleted from the lists of the deceased (by the Highest Order on the rank of the military on February 12, 1907).

• Order of St. Anne 3rd Class (1846)
• Royal favor (1850)
• Order of St. Anne 2nd Class (1851), Imperial Crown to the Order (1856)
• Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree (1852)
• Sign of XV years (1856)
• Order of St. Vladimir of the 3rd degree (1858)
• Royal favor (1858)
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st Class (1860)
• Order of St. Anne 1st Class (1862)
• Order of St. Vladimir 2nd degree (1865)
• Order of the White Eagle (1870)
• Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1876), diamond signs to the Order (1882)
• Sign of XL years (1877)
• Highest thanks (1878)
• Order of St. Vladimir of the 1st degree (1893)
• Diamond snuffbox with a portrait of His Imperial Majesty (1899)
• Order of St. Andrew the First-Called (1902)
• Highest thanks (1905)
• Red Cross insignia (1899)

Foreign

• Montenegrin Prince Daniel I of the 1st Degree (1882)
• Serbian Order of the Takovo Cross 1st Class (1886)

• Volkov S.V. The Generality of the Russian Empire. Encyclopedic dictionary of generals and admirals from Peter I to Nicholas II. - T. I. - M .: Tsentrpoligraf , 2009. - ISBN 978-5-227-02054-3
• List of seniority generals. Corrected on January 6th. - SPb. , 1907.
• List of seniority generals. Corrected on July 1. - SPb. , 1906. - p. 11.
• List of senior generals . Corrected on September 1. - SPb. 1900
• Gedeonov I.M.
• Russian Imperial Army
• TsGIA, foundation 19, opis 127, deed 1960 (Metric book of the Simeonov church on Mokhovaya street), page 292.