Pavel Petrovich Petrov ( January 26, 1882 , the village of Solpyakovo , Pskov province - July 24, 1967 , Santa Clara , California ) - Major General ( 1919 ). Member of the First World War and Civil War. Prominent figure in the White movement in the Volga region and Siberia .
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| Place of Birth | Solpyakovo village, Videlibsky volost, Pskov district , Pskov province , Russian empire | ||||||||
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| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||||
| Type of army | army | ||||||||
| Years of service | 1903-1922 | ||||||||
| Rank |  major general | ||||||||
| Commanded | regiment, division, army headquarters | ||||||||
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil war in Russia | ||||||||
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| Retired | in exile in China, USA | ||||||||
Biography
Born into a peasant family. He graduated from the zemstvo school, served as a messenger with the zemstvo head, a clerk's student, then as an assistant clerk in the rural municipality board, as a clerk under the zemstvo head, was engaged in self-education. In the fall of 1903 he entered voluntarily determined into the Irkutsk Infantry Regiment stationed in Pskov .
Education and start of officer service
He graduated from the St. Petersburg Infantry Junker School ( 1906 ), the Imperial Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff ( 1913 ) - in the 1st category. In 1909-1910 he served in the 3rd Finland Rifle Regiment, where he was released as second lieutenant . Lieutenant (1909). Headquarters Captain (1913). Since 1914 - company commander in the 170th Molodechensky Infantry Regiment (where the combat qualification was held).
Participation in World War I
The war began as part of the 170th Molodechensky Infantry Regiment. Since 1914 , he served in the headquarters of the 29th Infantry Division of the 2nd Army Corps, then headed the intelligence and photogrammetry department at the headquarters of the 1st Army. In 1915 he was promoted to captain . He participated in battles in East Prussia , Poland , in the battles of Grodno and Sejny (1915), in the liquidation of the breakthrough of German troops at Molodechno and in a number of other battles. Since November 11, 1915, he served as an assistant to the senior adjutant of the Quartermaster General Staff of the 1st Army. Since 1916 he served in the headquarters of the 1st Siberian Corps. Participated in flights on the Farman airplane with the aim of reconnaissance and photographing enemy positions.
In 1917 - lieutenant colonel, he was sent to the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command "to draw up intelligence instructions."
Civil War
In March 1918, by order of Trotsky, along with the army headquarters, he was evacuated to Samara to organize new units of the Volga Military District, in April - June 1918 he served in the headquarters of the Volga Military District of the Red Army. He joined the anti-Bolshevik demonstration in Samara on June 8, 1918 and entered the service of the COMUCH People’s Army . On June 9, 1918, he was the head of the operational department of the Military Headquarters of the People’s Army of the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly ( July 29, 1918, the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Comuch Military Department). Commander of the 3rd Samara Rifle Regiment, quartermaster general of the headquarters of the Samara group of forces. Colonel (December 1918).
In the army of the Supreme Ruler A.V. Kolchak - chief of staff of the 6th Ural Army Corps ( January 3 - May 26, 1919 ), assistant chief of supply for the Western Army, head of the 4th Ufa Rifle Division (from September 18, 1919 to March 23, 1920 ) . Member of the Great Siberian ice campaign . December 14, 1919 was appointed commander of the 3rd Army (instead of the seriously ill General V.O. Kappel ). Formally, he was until January 23, 1920, but due to the lack of communication with the army he really could not take up the post and continued to command the 4th division until coming to Chita . Major General (December 1919).
Since March 1920 - Chief of Supply of the Far Eastern Army, Head of the Russian Military Mission at Manchuria Station.
After the defeat at Chita on November 10, 1920 he emigrated to China . In May - June 1921 - chief of staff of the Belopovstanskoy Army , participated in the Khabarovsk campaign under the command of General V.M. Molchanov . Since August 10, 1922 - chief of staff of the Amur Zemsky rati (the so-called armed forces of General M.K. Diterikhs in Primorye). He left Primorye near the village of Novokievki on November 1, 1922, having evacuated with the army to Khunchun.
Life in exile
He lived in Dairen , Harbin , since 1923 - in Mukden . He was the head of the station on the CER , worked in a foreign company. He was the head of the office of the Far Eastern Division of the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS) in Mukden . Since 1930 he lived in Shanghai , where he moved at the invitation of General Diterichs.
In 1933 he was sent by General Dieterichs to Japan in order to secure the return of a part of the gold reserve (in the amount of 1 million 270 thousand gold rubles), which at the end of 1920 was handed over by General Petrov to the receipt of the Japanese military mission, since the White did not dare to bring gold to the time of the transfer of troops through China to Primorye. He initiated a lawsuit that was delayed and did not lead to any results. Acted as head of the EMRO department in Japan. During World War II, the general was forced to accept the Japanese authorities' offer to dismiss the case in exchange for paying legal fees. He was the chairman of the society of Russian emigrants in Japan (1937) and the head of the Russian school at the Orthodox Cathedral in Tokyo . Since 1947 he lived in San Francisco (USA), a teacher of Russian at the Army School in Monterey ( 1948 - 1955 ), chairman of the Society of Veterans of the Great War ( 1953 - 1962 ). Since 1955 he lived in Berkeley , then in Santa Clara.
He was buried in the Serbian cemetery of the city of Colma near San Francisco.
Family
Wife - Olga Petrovna, nee Stepanova, during the First World War and the Civil War was a sister of mercy, a participant in the Great Siberian Ice Campaign . In exile, she was engaged in literary activities and charity, organized campaigns to help children of immigrants.
Sons:
- Sergey (master of history, author of works on Russian history, manager of a large insurance company in the USA);
- Nikita (engineer, director of a large cement company);
- Dmitry (physicist, doctor of sciences).
Proceedings [1]
- Petrov P.P. From the Volga to the Pacific Ocean in the ranks of the whites: (Memories): 1918-1922. - Riga: M. Didkovsky, 1930 .-- 250 p.
- Petrov P.P. The collapse of Imperial Russia: 20 years after the February Revolution. - Harbin: Zaitsev, 1938 .-- 151 p. - (From the annals of the Russian revolution).
- Petrov P.P. Fatal years. 1914-1920 . - Main-Sossenheim: Posev, 1965 .-- 271 p. - (Source - L. Foster. Bibliography of Russian foreign literature. 1918-1968. - Boston, 1970. - T. 2. - P. 871).
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (VP 8.05.1913)
- swords for the Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (VP 6.07.1915)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords (VP 3.05.1916)
- Order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd degree with swords (VP 3.06.1916)
- Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree with the inscription "For courage" (VP 15.01.1917)
Bibliography
- Volkov E.V. The peasant son of White Russia: the life line of General P.P. Petrov // White Army. White business. - Yekaterinburg, 2006. - No. 15 .
- Kappel and the Kappel people: [collection of documents and memoirs] / Ed. and comp .: RG Gagkuev et al. - 2nd ed., rev. and add. - M .: Sowing, 2007 .-- 733 p. - (Military historical series "White Warriors"). - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-85824-174-4 .
Notes
- ↑ Source - electronic catalogs of the MFN
Links
- Petrov, Pavel Petrovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Biographies of generals