Pestich, Evgeny Filimonovich

Orthodox. From the nobles of the Kherson province. The son of the General of the Marine Artillery Corps Filimon Vasilyevich Pestich . The elder brother Konstantin is a colonel (1858-1903), a military journalist.

He graduated from the Page Corps (1886), was released from the pages in the second lieutenants of the Life Guards of the Semenovsky Regiment .

Ranks: lieutenant (1890), staff captain of the guard with renaming as captains of the General Staff (1892), lieutenant colonel (1898), colonel (1902), major general (for distinction, 1910).

In 1892 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in the 1st category. He was a senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 16th Army Corps (1893-1894), chief officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the same corps (1894-1898), head officer for assignments at the headquarters of the Vilna Military District (1898-1901).

September 26, 1901 was appointed chief of staff of the Ivangorod fortress . With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, he was sent to Port Arthur at the disposal of the Viceroy in the Far East. From March 25, 1904, he served as headquarters officer for office management and assignments of the Quartermaster General of the Field Headquarters of the Viceroy; from November 11, he headed the censorship department at the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief.

In November 1905 he returned to Ivangorod. In 1907-1910 he commanded the 6th Libava Infantry Regiment .

On July 11, 1910, the Chief of Staff of the 13th Army Corps was appointed, with whom he entered the First World War . He participated in a campaign in East Prussia ; on August 17, 1914 he was captured with the encirclement of the remains of the corps in the Comussin (Günflis) forest. On September 21, 1916 he was kept in the Königstein fortress .

Returning from Germany, he participated in the White Movement as part of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia . He died on September 5, 1919 in street battles in Kiev .

He was married, had two children.

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1895);
• Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1901);
• Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. with swords (03/29/1905);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. with swords and bow (06/18/1906);
• Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. with swords (02/10/1907);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1909);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. (1913).

• O. R. Freiman Pages for 183 (1711-1894). Biographies of former pages with portraits. - Friedrichshamn, 1894-1897. - S. 727.
• Pestich, Eugene Filimonovich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
• Biography on the site "Russian Imperial Army"