Michail Lvovich Matveev ( 1864 - not earlier than 1920) - Russian military leader, lieutenant-general, hero of the First World War .
| Mikhail Lvovich Matveev | |||||||
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| Date of Birth | December 15 (27) 1864 | ||||||
| Date of death | unknown | ||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||
| Type of army | infantry | ||||||
| Rank | lieutenant general | ||||||
| Commanded | 37th infantry. division | ||||||
| Battles / Wars | First World War , Civil War | ||||||
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Biography
Orthodox.
He graduated from the 4th Moscow Cadet Corps (1882) and the 3rd Military Alexander School (1884), from where he was released as a lieutenant in the Life Guards Volynsky Regiment .
Chinas: lieutenant (1888), guard captain with renaming to captains of the General Staff (1893), lieutenant colonel (1898), colonel (for distinction, 1902), major general (for distinction, 1910), lieutenant general (1915).
In 1893 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff on the 1st category. After graduating from the academy, he was the senior adjutant of the headquarters: the 40th Infantry Division (1894-1896), the 3rd Army (1896-1898) and the 20th Army (1898) corps. Then a staff officer for instructions at the headquarters of the 3rd Army Corps (1898-1901).
In the years 1901-1905 was the chief of staff of the 18th Infantry Division . Then he commanded the 184th Infantry Reserve Warsaw Regiment (1905–1910) and the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Siberian Rifle Division (1910–1912).
July 23, 1912 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division , with which he entered the First World War . He was awarded the St. George weapons
| For the fact that in battles from December 7–9, 1914, commanding a convoy of three types of troops and receiving an order to smash significant enemy forces to cover the left flank of the middle column, he launched an offensive, using timely measures, paralyzed the enemy’s reach. the turn enveloped his flank, caused him great damage, threw back, and, going on the offensive also on his right flank, inflicted a decisive defeat on the enemy. |
and the Order of St. George 4th degree
| For being the head of the right column of the Stryisky detachment, from January 10 to January 25, he was holding back the pressure of the German corps with three regiments of weak personnel who violently attacked our positions day and night. During these days, troops subordinate to the gene. Matveev, under his leadership, suffered enormous losses to the Germans. In the battles at an altitude of 992 near Kozuvka, the troops of the column withstood a series of fierce attacks by the Germans on January 25. 1915; there were 22 such attacks. All attacks invariably resulted in the defeat of the enemy, whose offensive here was finally stopped. General Matveyev, personally directing the actions of the columns under enemy fire, showed amazing courage, perseverance and stewardship. |
In March — May 1915, he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 78th Infantry Division, with which he participated in the battles for the mountain Makkovka . From July 7 to July 17, 1915 he was commander of the 37th infantry division . September 1, 1915 he was appointed commander of the 3rd infantry reserve brigade, and the following year - promoted to lieutenant general with the approval of the post.
In June 1917 he was dismissed from service for his illness. Participated in the White movement in the composition of the All-Soviet Union and the Russian army of Baron Wrangel . In the book "Last abode: Crimea. 1920–1921 ”refers to the former royal officer Matveyev Mikhail Lvovich, born in Kiev, born in 1863, who lived in Livadia and was shot by the Bolsheviks in Yalta on December 21, 1920 [1] .
Awards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd century. (1899);
- Order of St. Anne 3rd century. (1905);
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1907);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd century. with swords (VP 01.1915);
- Order of St. George 4th century (VP 13.03.1915);
- St. George’s Weapons (VP 22.05.1915).
Notes
- ↑ Abramenko L. M. Last abode: Crimea. 1920-1921 Kiev, 2005. p. 400
Links
- Matveev, Mikhail Lvovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."