Aleksandr Vladimir Monomakhov ( July 31 ( August 12 ), 1865 - September 11, 1919 ) - Russian general, hero of the First World War .
| Alexander Vladimirovich Monomakhov | |||||
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| Date of Birth | July 31 ( August 12 ) 1865 | ||||
| Date of death | September 11, 1919 (54 years old) | ||||
| A place of death | Eagle | ||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||
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| Rank | major general | ||||
| Battles / wars | World War I | ||||
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Biography
He graduated from the Voronezh Cadet Corps (1883) and the Nikolaev Cavalry School (1885), from where he was released as a cornet in the Life Guards of the Grodno Hussars Regiment .
Ranks: lieutenant (1889), staff captain (1891), captain (1896), colonel (1904), major general (for distinction, 1914).
He was in charge of the regimental training team, for eight years he commanded the squadron of the Grodno regiment. Then he commanded the 13th Dragoon Military Order Regiment (1908-1914).
March 23, 1914 was appointed commander of the 1st Brigade of the 11th Cavalry Division , with which he entered the First World War . Granted by St. George's Arms
| For the fact that 11 aug. In 1914, in a cavalry battle, he personally led a significant part of his brigade into an equestrian attack, and, bringing it to blow with cold steel, knocked over the Hungarian hussars who had mounted our equestrian artillery. |
In May 1917, he was temporarily commander of the Zaamur cavalry division, on May 22 he was appointed commander of the 8th cavalry division .
After the declaration of Red Terror, he was taken hostage by the Kharkov Cheka . During the abandonment of Kharkov during the offensive, the All-Union Socialist Liberation Union was taken through Sumy to Oryol, where it was hacked down among other Kharkov hostages.
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1895);
- Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1903);
- Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. (1907);
- Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (1911);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. with swords (1915);
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. with swords (VP ββ02.15.1915);
- St. George's Arms (VP 09.03.1915);
- Order of St. Anne 1st Art. with swords (VP ββ03.15.1915).
Links
- Monomakhov, Alexander Vladimirovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".