Nikolai Khristianovich (Khristoforovich) Agte (1816-1867) - Russian military topographer , major general (1859) [1] .
| Nikolay Khristianovich Agte | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1816 |
| Date of death | 1867 |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Years of service | 1833-1859 |
| Rank | major general |
Biography
He studied at Kharkov University . In 1833 he entered the military service as a full-time university student. Made in the guards of the cuirassier Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna regiment . In 1835 he entered the Imperial Military Academy in St. Petersburg , which he graduated in 1837 . The following year he was assigned to the General Staff of the Russian Army [2] .
In 1840 he was sent to the disposal of the Orenburg Governor General . In 1842, he became a member of the Commission of Senator I.N. Tolstoy , who conducted an audit in Eastern Siberia . From 1843 to 1845 he was engaged in the production of topographic works in Western Siberia . Under the leadership of Agte, extensive geodetic and topographic works were carried out with astronomical location , semi-instrumental eye surveys and reconnaissance along the Russian-Chinese border, plans for the border fortresses of the Troitsko-Savskaya, Gorbitskaya, Novo-Tsuruhayskaya and Aksha, as well as the border Cossack guards in the Trans-Baikal region 2] [1] . For his work in Siberia, he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree [2] .
Upon his return from Siberia in 1846]] he was appointed to the Commission for Verification of the Border and the Renewal of Border Marks between Russia and Norway . Work in the Commission completed in August of the same year. For excellent work, he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree and the Swedish Order of Olaf of the 3rd degree [2] .
In 1848]] The Russian government equipped a secret expedition to collect information about the true state of the Russian-Chinese border and its compliance with the Nerchinsk Treaty of 1689 . The head of the expedition is Nikolai Agte. The expedition conducted its research from 1849 to 1852 from Baikal to the Sea of Okhotsk . Based on the results of expeditionary research, a detailed map of the Stanovoi Range and the Bureysky Mountains was compiled. In 1953 he made a report on the results of the expedition to the Russian emperor Nicholas I ; in the same year, for excellent performance of his duty, he was promoted to colonel [2] .
The Crimean War began in 1853 , and in 1854 Agte was sent to the Abo detachment to protect the coast of Finland , where he served in the Baltic theater of operations until the end of the war in 1856 . In 1857 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 2nd Cuirassier Division .
For health reasons, he was forced to leave military service. January 1, 1859 resigned, awarded the rank of Major General . He spent the last years of his life in Ukraine
He died in 1867 . He was buried in the village of Sednevka of the Elizavetgrad district (now the Kirovograd region of Ukraine ) in the cemetery at the Ilyinsky church [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Karev V.M. Germans of Russia: AI . - "ERN", 1999. - S. 22.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Agte, Nikolai Khristianovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- ↑ Blinov S.G. River of times . - Ellis Luck, 1996 .-- S. 9.