The Georgievskaya company (from the beginning of December to 13 (26) December 1917 - the 1st Georgia official rota ) is one of the first units of the Volunteer army .
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History
Formed in the middle of November 1917 in Novocherkassk from the frame of the 1st St. George Reserve Regiment [1] (in the amount of 16 officers and 10 privates) by its commander Colonel IK Kiriyenko . I counted 50-60 people.
At the beginning of December 1917, during the formation of officers' companies, it received number 1, but on December 13 it was again renamed Georgievskaya.
On January 26 - December 1, 1917, the St. George Company participated in the assault on Rostov as part of one of the Cossack detachments of Kaledin , which ended successfully on December 1 [14] . At the end of December 1917 - the beginning of January 1918, the company was sent to the aid of partisan detachments at the Matveyev Kurgan station, where it entered the Taganrog detachment of Colonel Alexander Kutepov . Took part in the battles on January 28 [ February 10 ] of 1918 in the area of Taganrog against the Sivers group of up to 10 thousand people. Together with the Rostov company, he was assigned to a special detachment covering the direction from Matveyev Kurgan to Rostov. Until February 8 [21] took a position in the direction of the Sultan Saly [2] .
By the end of the fighting, about 40 bayonets from the original 70 remained in the company. In Rostov, Kutepov's detachment was reduced to the 3rd officer battalion under his command, in which the Guards company became the fourth.
Entry into the Volunteer Army
On February 23 , 1918, when the Volunteer Army was re-formed, the St. George's company at the beginning of the 1st Kuban campaign in the village of Olginskaya , became the 3rd battalion (120 bayonets) in the Kornilov shock regiment [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Formed in Kiev in the spring and autumn of 1917.
- ↑ 1 2 Gagkuev R. G. The White Movement in the South of Russia. Military construction, sources of recruitment, social composition. 1917-1920 / Scientific. ed. Kiselev A.F., d. And. n, prof. - Moscow: Commonwealth "Sowing", 2012. - 704 p. - ISBN 978-5-9902820-3-2 .