Nikolay Antoninovich Knyazhevich ( January 19, 1871 - March 4, 1950 , Saint Genevieve de Bois ) - Major General of the Suite, the last Tauride governor . Grandson of D. M. Knyazhevich .
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| Predecessor | Nikolai Nikolaevich Lavrinovsky | ||||||
| Successor | position liquidated | ||||||
| Birth | January 19, 1871 | ||||||
| Death | March 4, 1950 (aged 79) Saint Genevieve de Bois , France | ||||||
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| Education | Alexander Lyceum | ||||||
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| Years of service | 1891-1917 | ||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||
| Type of army | cavalry | ||||||
| Rank | major general | ||||||
| Battles | World War I | ||||||
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 memory
- 3 Awards
- 4 Sources
Biography
Orthodox. From the hereditary nobles of the Tauride province. The son of Privy Councilor Antonin Dmitrievich Knyazhevich. The younger brother Vladimir is the Feodosia district leader of the nobility.
In 1891 he graduated from the Alexander Lyceum with a gold medal. The following year, he passed the officer test at the 1st Military Pavlovsk School and was determined a cornet in the Life Guards Hussars of His Majesty's Regiment .
Ranks: lieutenant (1896), staff captain (1898), captain (1902), adjutant wing (1904), colonel (1904), major general enlisted in the retinue (for distinction, 1912).
For three and a half years he commanded a squadron of the Life Guards of the Hussar Regiment. In 1908-1912 he commanded the Crimean Horse Regiment . On October 9, 1912, he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 8th Cavalry Division , with which he entered the First World War . He was awarded the St. George arms
For the fact that in the battle of 24 and 25 Aug. 1914 near Annopol , captured and held an important point on the river. Wisle. |
On November 14, 1914, he was appointed the Tauride Governor , and on January 11, 1917, the Odessa mayor
After the October Revolution in exile in Yugoslavia. In the early 1920s he lived with his family in Hungary. Then he moved to France, headed the association of the Crimean cavalry regiment. The last years of his life he spent in the Russian house in Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois .
He died in 1950. He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois . He was married to Ekaterina Borisovna Obukhova (1891-1954).
Memory
- In 1916-1952, in honor of Nikolai Antoninovich, the Bright Station of the Crimean Railway was named.
- His name was boulevard in Yevpatoria , now - Frunze street.
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1901);
- Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1904);
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (1906);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1909) with swords (1914);
- Order of St. Anne 1st Art. with swords (1915);
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. with swords (1915);
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd art. with swords (1915);
- St. George's Arms (VP 09.03.1915).
Sources
- Memorial book of lyceum students. - St. Petersburg: Printing house of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1911. - P. 127.
- Russian abroad in France. 1919-2000. / under total. ed. L. Mnukhina, M. Avril, V. Lossky. - M .: Science; House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, 2008.
- Knyazhevich, Nikolai Antoninovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Biography on the site "Russian Imperial Army"