Yevgeny Iosifovich Matsievsky (1845-1910) - Russian military commander, infantry general (1907), participant in the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1863-1864, campaigns in Central Asia of the 1860s, and the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878.
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| Predecessor | Khoroshkhin, Mikhail Pavlovich | |||||||
| Successor | Nadarov, Ivan Pavlovich | |||||||
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| Years of service | 1863-1907 | |||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||||
| Type of army | infantry | |||||||
| Rank | general from infantry | |||||||
| Commanded | 1st Turkestan Army Corps | |||||||
| Battles | The suppression of the Polish uprising of 1863-1864. , Turkestan campaigns , the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) , | |||||||
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Biography
He graduated from the 2nd St. Petersburg Cadet Corps (1863). In service since June 12, 1863, as a second lieutenant in the 14th Infantry Olonets Regiment . August 29, 1867 promoted to lieutenant . In 1870 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in the 2nd category.
Since January 2, 1871 - Assistant to the Senior Adjutant of the Staff of the Finnish Military District. Since April 3, 1873 - headquarters captain. From December 6 to 12, 1874 - tutor of the 2nd military school of Konstantinovsky , from August 30, 1876 - lieutenant colonel , was seconded to the Higher Educational Institution of Higher Education. From November 4, 1876 - was for Special Assignments at the headquarters of the 11th, then from March 23, 1877 - at the headquarters of the 9th Army.
From November 13, 1877, he was the head of troop movement along the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov, Kharkov-Nikolaev, Konstantinovskaya and Lozovo-Sevastopol railways. From August 30, 1877, he was a colonel , from June 1, 1877, he was the head of the Chuguev Infantry Junker School , and from February 8, 1879, he was the commander of the 78th reserve infantry (personnel) battalion.
Since 1882 - I.D. the chief of the 15th local brigade, from February 4, 1888 - the commander of the 7th grenadier Samogit regiment (Moscow), from March 16, 1893 - major general , commander of the 2nd brigade of the 17th infantry division (Zamosc).
From May 27, 1893, he was the military governor of the Transbaikal Region, commander of the troops and the ataman of the Transbaikal Cossack Army, and from September 30, 1900, he was lieutenant general. Honorary citizen of the city of Chita. Under him, a branch of the Amur branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society was created in Chita. In 1901, the construction of the Manchurian railway ended. The reform of the army was completed, in particular the creation of the famous Transbaikal Cossack regiments: Chita , Verkhneudinsky, Nerchinsky and Argun . A lot of educational institutions were opened, ranging from parish schools to the regional museum, including the Nicholas II Vocational School, which, while still a prince, supported the idea of its construction, so the school was named after him.
From April 19, 1901 to November 14, 1904 and from August 31, 1906 to 1907 - assistant to the Turkestan governor-general and commander of the troops of the Turkestan military district, from November 14, 1904 to 1906 - commander of the 1st Turkestan army corps . In 1907, he was dismissed from production with generals from infantry.
Family
He had 7 children, one of his sons - General Georgy Evgenievich Matsievsky .
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav with swords and bow of the 3rd degree (1867)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree (1867)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1872)
- Golden saber “For courage” (1877)
- Order of St. Anne 2 degrees (1882)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1883)
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1895)
- Order of St. Anne 1st Class (1899)
Foreign awards
- 2nd Class Commander's Cross of the Order of the Sword (1878)