Nikolai Nikolaevich Peshkov (April 4, 1857 — after 1917) - officer of the General Staff of the Russian Army , Lieutenant General , Governor of the Kharkov Province (1906-1908), Chairman of the Russian Assembly (1912-1913), head of the Committee for the Organization of Expeditions to the North Pole.
| Nikolai Nikolaevich Peshkov | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Date of Birth | April 4, 1857 |
| Date of death | after 1917 |
| Years of service | 1875-1917 |
| Rank | Lieutenant general |
| Awards and prizes | |
Content
Biography
Born April 4, 1857. In 1872 he entered the Page Corps , and in 1873 transferred to the junior special class. On August 4, 1875, he was promoted to cornet of the Cavalier Guard regiment from senior chamber pages. In 1876 he was appointed assistant to the head of the training team.
Participation in the Russo-Turkish War
During the Russian-Turkish war he was seconded to the Life Guards Equestrian Regiment .
He participated in affairs at Gorny Dubnyak (October 12), Telisha (October 16), Vratsa (October 28), Radotin (November 10), Lyutikov (November 16) and in the battles of Philippol from December 31 to January 5. In 1878 he was promoted to lieutenant .
General Staff Officer and Foreign Ministry Service
October 10, 1878 he entered the Academy of the General Staff . In 1881 he was promoted to headquarters captain . At the end of the academy's 1st grade course, on April 23, 1881, he was assigned to the headquarters of the Warsaw Military District .
November 27, 1881 transferred to the General Staff , with the appointment of chief officer for assignments at the headquarters of the Warsaw Military District.
He went to serve in the Foreign Ministry . On March 7, 1883 it was renamed into college assessors with the appointment of vice consul in Rize ( Turkey ).
October 9, 1886 he was appointed a military agent in Constantinople , with admission to the General Staff and production of lieutenant colonels .
In 1889 he was appointed the builder of the Temple-tomb of Russian soldiers near San Stefano according to the project of V.V.Suslov . On December 6, 1898, the church was consecrated in the presence of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich and a military deputation. [one]
In 1890 he was promoted to colonel .
In 1896 he was sent to Crete as part of the international commission for the construction of the gendarmerie .
In 1897 he was sent to Bulgaria to negotiate the acceptance of emigrant officers into the service of the Bulgarian Army.
In 1898 he was appointed a delegate to the international commission for the evacuation of Thessaly by Turkish troops.
June 17, 1899 was appointed to the chief of the General Staff . In 1900 he was promoted to major general and assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division for command during the camp brigade of the 1st Brigade .
In 1901, with the highest permission, he was sent to the Turgai region . In 1902 he was appointed chief of staff of the 7th army corps , and in 1904 he was transferred to chief of staff of the 2nd cavalry corps.
Governorship in the Kharkov province
In 1906 he was appointed to the post of Kharkov Governor and Governor-General of Kharkov.
December 6, 1906 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
In 1907, Minister of the Interior P. A. Stolypin wrote in a letter to the Minister of War that "the selfless activities of General Peshkov and the willpower and tact shown by him at the same time greatly contributed to maintaining order and calm in the Kharkov province ."
Peshkov is credited with the first use of administrative resources during elections. It was rumored that in 1906 during the first elections to the State Duma, he mobilized police to campaign against cadet N. A. Gredeskul .
Law enforcement officers approached every layman and warned: “His Excellency ordered you not to dare to vote for Gredeskul. He is a Jewish face. ”
In December 1907 he made a petition for transfer to military service, but was left to act as governor.
In a letter addressed to the Minister of the Interior of June 18, 1908, which contained a request for leave for treatment abroad, Peshkov wrote: “Having entered the administration of the Highest province entrusted to me on February 8, 1906, I have never taken any leave for two and a half years. , not even for a short rest, devoting all my strength to the performance of official duties, which were further complicated by the fact that I had to restore order in the province that had been disrupted by the revolutionary movement of 1905. Such intensified and continuous activity e could not affect my health, which is why I, on the advice of doctors, it is necessary to leave for a while to treat the disease in one of the overseas resorts. "
In principle, permission to leave was obtained, but when the issue turned into a practical plane, P. A. Stolypin imposed the following resolution: “In view of the absence of the vice-governor, I consider it inconvenient for you to leave on vacation.” Finally, Oct 2. 1908 Peshkov wrote in the name of Emperor Nicholas II a letter of resignation, which is October 6. was satisfied. At the suggestion of the Council of Ministers, he was assigned a pension in an increased category (3 thousand rubles per year).
Monarchist Movement
Having regained health and returned to Petersburg , Peshkov took an active part in the monarchist movement.
On May 23, 1910 he was elected a candidate member of the NRC Main Council, and on June 1, 1910, he was elected a member of the Main Council. On January 29, 1912, Peshkov became a member of the PC Council, and on March 15, 1912 he was elected chairman of the PC Council.
On November 23, 1912, as a specialist in the Balkans , Peshkov made a paper presentation on the subject "On the Balkan Peninsula." The result of the report and active debate was the decision of the PC to send greetings and wishes for success to the heads of the four Balkan states at the theater of war (thankful telegrams from Bulgaria, Serbia , Greece and Montenegro were received in response).
On March 21, 1913, Peshkov resigned as chairman of the Council, and on May 2, 1913, retired from the Council.
Participation in the preparation of the Sedov expedition
He was fascinated by other ideas, he headed the Committee on the organization of expeditions to the North Pole .
World War I
During the First World War, Peshkov was again called up for military service, in July 1916 he was appointed military governor general of the conquered regions in Turkey .
1917 Revolution
Dismissed from service for illness with a uniform and pension 05/31/1917. [2]
His fate after the revolution is unknown.
Rewards
Knight of many orders, including the Order of St. Anne of the 4th art. (1879); St. Anne 2nd Art. (1893); St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1897); St. Stanislav 1st Art. (1905) [3] , officer cross of the French Order of the Legion of Honor .
Family
Married to the daughter of retired Major General Elizabeth Petrovna Esipova.
His brother, Major General F.N. Peshkov (1859-1910), the first honorary citizen of Tsarskoye Selo , was the head of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace Administration in 1906-1910.
Sources
Links
- Great Encyclopedia of the Russian people
- Peshkov, Nikolai Nikolaevich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Chronos biography
Notes
- ↑ Tomb of Russian soldiers near San Stefano - an article in the NIVA Magazine , 1899 // Website of the Tsaritsyn Genealogical Society
- ↑ Egorov N.D. Russian generals on the eve of the Civil War (Materials for the biographical reference book). M. 2004.
- ↑ Peshkov Nikolai Nikolaevich // Page in the file cabinet of the project “Russian Army in the First World War”