Mikhail Ippolitovich Zankevich (1872-1945, France ) - Russian general, military agent in Romania and Austria-Hungary, hero of the First World War .
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| Date of Birth | September 17 (29) 1872 | ||||||||
| Date of death | May 14, 1945 (72 years) | ||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | ||||||||
| Rank | major general | ||||||||
| Battles / Wars | First World War , Civil War | ||||||||
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Biography
Orthodox. Of the nobles. Son of Colonel Hippolyt Mikhailovich Zankevich.
He graduated from the Pskov Cadet Corps (1891) and Pavlovsk Military School (1893), from where he was released as a lieutenant in the Life Guards Pavlovsky Regiment .
Chinas: lieutenant (1897), staff captain (1899), captain of the General Staff (1899), lieutenant colonel (1904), colonel (1908), major general (1914).
In 1899, he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff on the 1st category and was promoted to headquarters with the renaming of the captains of the General Staff. Upon graduation, he was a senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 29th Infantry Division (1899-1900) and an ober-officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the 20th Army Corps (1900-1903). The census command of the company served in the Life Guards Pavlovsky Regiment (1901-1902). In February — May 1903, he corrected the position of junior clerk of the office of the military-scientific committee of the General Staff ; in May — November 1903 he was the head of the General Staff. Then he was an assistant to a military agent in Vienna (1903–1905), a military agent in Romania (1905–10) and Austria-Hungary (1910–1913).
On July 8, 1913, he was appointed commander of the 146th Tsaritsyn Infantry Regiment , with which he entered the First World War . Georgievskim weapons awarded
| For the fact that in a number of battles waged by the division from August 20 to September 7, 1914, he talentedly and vigorously carried out the tasks assigned to him, always being in the most dangerous places, and in battle on August 20, 1914 he captured and retained in his in the hands of the village of Sivalka, which served as an excellent starting point for an attack of height 107.5 in the acquisition of which the next day he took the most energetic part. |
January 14, 1915 promoted to Major General " for differences in cases against the enemy ." On March 6, 1915 - the commander of the 146th Tsaritsyn Infantry Regiment, on May 28 of the same year - the commander of the brigade of the 37th Infantry Division . On August 22, 1915, he was appointed commander of the Life Guards Pavlovsky Regiment , and on May 20, 1916, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division . July 11, 1916 appointed i.d. Quartermaster-General of the General Staff, in which position he stayed until April 5, 1917, when he was appointed at the disposal of the Chief of the General Staff. From January 14, 1917, temporarily, in connection with the illness of General Averyanov , he served as the Chief of the General Staff. In February 1917, when riots broke out in Petrograd, he was appointed head of the military guard of Petrograd .
In the summer of 1917, he was appointed a representative of the General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander and the Provisional Government in France, and at the same time in July 1917 - December 1918 he replaced military agent Count Ignatiev . He fought with the soldiers' committees, in September 1917 he headed the units that pacified the rebellion of Russian soldiers in the camp of La Curtin .
In July 1919, he arrived in Russia and joined the White movement in Siberia. He was a quartermaster general at the headquarters of the Eastern Front of the Russian Army , until October 1919 he was chief of staff of the Northern Army group of General Lokhvitsky . In November 1919, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters of the Supreme Command Admiral Kolchak , in which position he remained until January 1920.
In emigration to France. Consisted as chairman of the Life Guards Pavlovsky Regiment, since 1934 - Chairman of the association of the Pskov Cadet Corps. He died in 1945. Buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve de Bois .
Awards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd century. (1902)
- Order of St. Anne 3rd century. (1907)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (GP 6/12/1911)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th century (VP 8.05.1912)
- St. George’s Weapons (VP 03/01/1915)
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd century. with swords (VP 10.01.1915)
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree with swords (VP 03/03/1915)
- swords and bow to the Order of St. Vladimir 4th century. (VP 28.05.1915)
- Order of St. Anne 1st st. with swords (VP 12.02.1916)
Works
- Circumstances accompanying the issuance of Admiral Kolchak to the revolutionary government in Irkutsk // White case. - Berlin, 1927. - T. 2.
Links
- Volkov S.V. The Generality of the Russian Empire. Encyclopedic dictionary of generals and admirals from Peter I to Nicholas II. T. Vol. 1. A. —K. - M., 2009.
- Zankevich, Mikhail Ippolitovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."