Konstantin Yakovlevich Kolzakov (1884-1941) - Russian officer, hero of the First World War , member of the White movement .
| Konstantin Yakovlevich Kolzakov | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date of Birth | November 24, 1884 | |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg | |
| Date of death | October 2, 1941 (56 years old) | |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |
| Years of service | 1904-1920 | |
| Rank | Colonel | |
| Part | L.-G. Horse artillery | |
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil War | |
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Biography
Orthodox. From hereditary nobles. The son of Major General Yakov Konstantinovich Kolzakov , who was shot in Pyatigorsk in 1918. According to his father, the great-grandson of Admiral P. A. Kolzakov and General J. Ya. Gillenchmidt .
At the end of the Page Corps, in 1906 he was released as a second lieutenant to the guards equestrian artillery brigade . On January 1, 1910 - in the same rank in the same brigade. Later he went into the reserve of field horse artillery with the rank of headquarters captain.
With the outbreak of World War I , the Horse Artillery was drafted into the Life Guards. Granted by St. George's Arms
| For being in the rank of staff captain and commanding the 5th battery in the battle on September 8, 1915 for crossing the village of Rechka, he replaced the observation post of the battery commander who had just been killed 500 steps away from the enemy and led under during the whole battle, such intense fire by the actual rifle fire of the enemy that they knocked out the Germans from the village of Rechka and thereby made it possible to inflict a decisive defeat on the enemy. |
April 26, 1916 promoted to captain . He was appointed commander of the 2nd Battery of the Life Guards of Equestrian Artillery, on April 2, 1917 he was promoted to colonel for a vacancy, with approval in office.
Participated in the White movement as part of the Northwest Army . In March 1920, he was an authorized liquidation commission of the NWA in Narva .
He stayed in Estonia , served as a logging contractor, owned the Aru farm in the Lechtsi parish. He was a member of the Estonian Division of the Page of the Union. In December 1940, after Estonia joined the USSR , the NKVD was arrested. On May 22, 1941, by a decision of the tribunal, he was sentenced to be shot, replaced by 10 years of imprisonment in the ITL and 5 years of defeat in his rights.
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne 4th Art. (VP 10.27.1914);
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. with swords and bow (VP 10.1914);
- Order of St. Anne , 2nd art. with swords (VP ββ21.09.1916);
- St. George's weapon (VP 24.01.1917).
Sources
- General list of officer ranks of the Russian Imperial Army. Done on January 1, 1910 - St. Petersburg. 1910.
- Kolzakov, Konstantin Yakovlevich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".