Marchenko, Mitrofan Konstantinovich

Orthodox. From the nobles .

In 1887 he graduated from the Imperial College of Law . The following year, he passed the officer exam at the 2nd Military Konstantinovsky School , was promoted to cornet and identified in the Life Guards Horse Regiment .

Ranks: lieutenant (1892), staff captain of the guard with renaming as captains of the General Staff (1896), lieutenant colonel (1901), colonel (for distinction, 1905), major general (for distinction, 1912).

In 1896 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in the 1st category. At the end of the academy, he was a senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 1st Guards Cavalry Division (1897-1900) and the Guards Corps (1900-1901). In 1901-1905 he was in charge of troop movements along the railways and waterways of the Petersburg-Moscow region. From June 24, 1905 to September 2, 1910 he was a military agent in Austria-Hungary.

Returning to Russia, he was the commander of the 19th Dragoon Arkhangelogorod Regiment (1910-1912). October 26, 1912 was appointed head of the Nikolaev Cavalry School , which held until 1917. March 20, 1917 was dismissed from service for domestic reasons.

In 1919 he emigrated to France. He published articles on economic issues in the newspapers and magazines Economiste français, Correspondant, and Revue hebdomadaire. He organized the publication Economiste Européen, dedicated to the economics of Sweden, Romania and Poland. In addition, he published in French books: III International against Christianity, Travel to Persia during the Revolution in Russia (1920), Austro-Hungarian Disaster (1920), World Revolution (1927). He collected books on military history, his library was about 3 thousand volumes.

Freemason , dedicated in 1920 in the "Anglo-Saxon" box under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of France . In 1922-1925, a member of the Paris lodge "Astrea" No. 500 (VLF). He was also a member of Masonic organizations of additional degrees ^[1] .

He died in 1932 in Paris. He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois .

Wife Vera Mikhailovna, nee Prutchenko (1868-1939), a public activist of emigration ^[2] .

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1897);
• Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1900);
• Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. (1903);
• Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (1908);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (02/26/1910);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. (VP 22.03.1915).

• A brief outline of the history of the Life Guards Horse Regiment: for the lower ranks of the regiment. - St. Petersburg, 1891.
• Peter the Great: a spiritual element in the military and political activities of the sovereign . - SPb., 1897.
• Russia and Turkey in the XIX century: the situation of the last 4 wars . - SPb., 1898.
• Peter the Great: thoughts of the sovereign on the creation of a military port on the Baltic coast. - St. Petersburg, 1899.
• Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov in his manuscripts . - SPb., 1900.
• Mazepa, his papers and letters. - SPb., 1909.

"St. Petersburg Gazette" 11/03/2016 "The Scout writes to a lawyer"

• N.L. Plowed. Imperial School of Law and Law during the years of peace, war and turmoil. - Madrid, 1967.
• Marchenko, Mitrofan Konstantinovich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".