Ivan Alekseevich Polyakov ( 1886 - 1969 ) - Russian military commander during the Civil War, major general of the General Staff of the White Army.
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| Date of Birth | August 10, 1886 | ||
| Place of Birth | Novocherkassk , Don Army Area , Russian empire | ||
| Date of death | April 16, 1969 (82 years old) | ||
| Place of death | New York , USA | ||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire The Great Don Army USA | ||
| Rank | Major general  major general | ||
| Battles / wars | World War I | ||
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Biography
He was born on August 10, 1886 in the Novocherkassk Region of the Don Army. Orthodox. Cossack of the village of Novo-Nikolaevskaya Taganrog district of the Don Army . [one]
He graduated from the Don Cadet Corps , the Nikolaev Engineering School and two classes of the Imperial Military Academy.
From the Nikolaev school he was released as second lieutenant (06.15.1908) into the 2nd Caucasian combat engineer battalion. Later he served in the 12th sapper battalion, lieutenant (03.24.1910). At the end of the academy, by order of the General Staff No. 2 for 1914, he was seconded for testing to the headquarters of the Petersburg Military District .
During the First World War he was reckoned to the General Staff, staff captain (03.24.1914). Since April 1915, he was an assistant to the senior adjutant of the operational department of the 9th Army Quartermaster General. Lieutenant Colonel (08/15/1917).
At the end of 1917 he arrived in the Don, but did not have time to join the detachment of the ataman General P. Kh. Popov , who took part in the Steppe campaign on February 12, 1918 . Hiding in Novocherkassk , and then in the village of Zaplavskaya . Participated in the All-Don revolt.
On April 9, 1918, he arrived at the Ataman as part of a delegation from the village of Zaplavskaya and was appointed chief of staff of the Southern Group, Colonel Denisov. With the appointment in May 1918, Colonel Denisov commander of the Don Army - Polyakov was appointed General Krasnov Chief of Staff of the Don Army with the production of colonels .
In July 1918, Polyakov was promoted to major general by the Don Ataman for his services to the organization of the Don Army and successful operations to cleanse the Don Army area from the Bolsheviks .
In January 1919, together with General Denisov, he participated in a meeting of the headquarters of the Volunteer and Don armies and sharply opposed the transfer of the unified command of both armies to General Denikin. On February 2, 1919, he handed over the post of chief of staff of the commander of the Don Army, as the Big Army Circle expressed no confidence in the command of the Don Army. He tried unsuccessfully to join the army of Admiral Kolchak.
He traveled to Constantinople , and then moved to the Kingdom of CXC . He served in the city government of the city of Zagreb .
During the Second World War he moved to Germany. In connection with the death of the Don ataman, Lieutenant General Count Grabbe - in July 1942, at the insistence of General Krasnov, the position of ataman was transferred without election to Lieutenant General G.V. Tatarkin . Before his death on November 12, 1947, General Tatarkin appointed General I. A. Polyakov as his successor, who took up the post of Don Ataman. However, most of the Cossacks considered their chieftain (until his death in 1960 ) the marching chieftain of the general from the cavalry P.X. Popov. Then the Don Military Council held limited elections, as a result of which General I. A. Polyakov became the chieftain.
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In the USA since 1952. On February 14, 1961, a ceremonial meeting was held in New York , at which the oldest Cossack - Lieutenant General F.F. Abramov - handed over to the General Polyakov the emblem of the Ataman power - the first.
I.V. Polyakov died on April 16, 1969 in New York . He was buried at St. Vladimir's Cemetery in New Jersey .
Rewards
- He was awarded the Orders of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (03/02/1911) and St. Anne 3rd degree (05/08/1914).
Works
I. A. Polyakov author of books:
- “Krasnov-Vlasov. Memories ”( 1959 ) [2] .
- “Don Cossacks in the fight against the Bolsheviks” ( Munich , 1962 ).
Interesting fact
- I. A. Polyakov, who was not a participant in the Second World War, was in continuous contact with the generals P. N. Krasnov and A. A. Vlasov (from the beginning of December 1944 to March 1945). Polyakov enjoyed their confidence and was aware of everything related to the difficult relationship between Krasnov and Vlasov.
Notes
- ↑ POLYAKOV Ivan Alekseevich
- ↑ Krasnov-Vlasov. Memories (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment December 5, 2012. Archived March 4, 2016.
Links
- Biography on the CHRONOS website
- Polyakov Ivan Alekseevich
- Polyakov, Ivan Alekseevich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- I.A. Polyakov. Don Cossacks in the fight against the Bolsheviks (1962) pdf