Viktor Petrovich Galfter ( October 20, 1868 , St. Petersburg - March 16, 1951 , London ) - Russian general, hero of the First World War , commander of the Life Guards of the Moscow Regiment .
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| Date of Birth | October 20, 1868 | ||||||||||
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg | ||||||||||
| Date of death | March 16, 1951 (82 years old) | ||||||||||
| Place of death | London , UK | ||||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||||||
| Rank | lieutenant general | ||||||||||
| Commanded | Moscow Life Guards Regiment | ||||||||||
| Battles / Wars | Russian-Japanese War , World War I Civil War | ||||||||||
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Biography
Orthodox. From the nobles.
He graduated from the Alexander Cadet Corps (1885) and the 1st Military Pavlovsk School (1887), was released as second lieutenant of the guard in the Life Guards of the Moscow Regiment .
Ranks: lieutenant (1891), staff captain (1898), captain (1900), colonel (1908), major general (1915), lieutenant general (1917).
He graduated from the Officers Rifle School . He commanded a company of the Moscow regiment.
He participated in the Russo-Japanese War : he was an assistant manager (1904), head of the warehouse of Her Imperial Majesty in Harbin (1904-1905).
In World War I, he commanded the Life Guards of the Moscow Regiment (1915-1917). He was awarded the St. George arms
| For the fact that in the battle of August 22-23. 1914, guiding the actions of 3 battalions, under enemy fire, at night attacked the left flank of his fortified position near the village of Izdebno and by personal example brought his battalions to a bayonet strike. |
and the Order of St. George 4th degree
For the fact that in a battle with the superior forces of the Austro-Germans on August 26, 1914 at the village. Tarnavka, at the head of the regiment, took the enemy’s fortified positions, captured 30 guns from the battle, reflecting a number of violent attacks of the enemy, trying to repel the taken guns. |
In 1917, he commanded the brigade of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division and the 10th Infantry Division .
Participated in the White Movement : at the end of 1918 he commanded the Northern Army in Ukraine, at the beginning of 1919 - the Western Volunteer Army. Since April 1919 he was the head of the military mission and was at the disposal of General Gurko in Paris . In the summer of 1919 he was at the headquarters of the troops of the South-Western Territory .
After the end of the Civil War he emigrated to England. He lived in London , was the chairman of the Life Guards Association of the Moscow Regiment, the Union of Former Russian Servicemen in England and the Union of Russian Military Disabled in Great Britain.
He died in 1951 in London.
Family
Brother Alexander (1870-1931) - Colonel of the Life Guards of the Moscow Regiment, remained in the USSR, repressed in the case of "Spring" .
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1896)
- Order of St. Anne , 2nd art. (1905)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (?) with swords (1915)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1913) with swords (1915)
- Order of St. George 4th Art. (VP 01/31/1915)
- St. George's Arms (VP 31.01.1915)
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. with swords (1915)
- Order of St. Anne 1st Art. with swords (1916)
- The highest favor (for military distinction, VP 23.01.1916)
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd art. with swords (1916)
Sources
- Volkov S.V. Officers of the Russian Guard: The experience of a martyrology. - M.: Russian Way, 2002 .-- S. 118.
- Russian Abroad in France 1919-2000. L. Mnukhin , M. Avril, V. Losskaya. - M .: Science; House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, 2008.
Links
- Halfter, Victor Petrovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
- Halfter Victor Petrovich