Karpov, Pyotr Petrovich

Born June 28, 1866 in an Orthodox family. Received home education.

He entered military service on May 18, 1885. Then he graduated from the Moscow Infantry Junker School, from where he was released as second lieutenant (art. 01.09.1887) to the 138th Bolkhov Infantry Regiment . Lieutenant (Art. 09.09.1891). Clerk of the Pavlovsky district military chief (from 01.10.1893).

Headquarters Captain (Art. 01.05.1896). County military commander since October 12, 1897. Senior adjutant of the management of the Tambov local brigade (from 30.11.1899). Captain (st. 06.05.1900). Assistant to the Senior Adjutant of the Headquarters of the Moscow Military District since July 17, 1905.

Lieutenant Colonel (Project 1905; Art. 30.07.1905; for distinction). Secretary of the Headquarters of the Moscow Military District (from September 24, 1905). Senior Adjutant to the Headquarters of the Moscow Military District from 02.23.1907 to 02.11.1910. Colonel (Project 1909; Art. 06.12.1909; for distinction). Then he was in reserve for 4 months and in April 1914 he was part of the 181st Infantry Regiment of the Ostrolensky .

Member of the First World War . At the beginning of the war he commanded the 321st Oka Infantry Regiment, then the commander of the 183rd Pultus Infantry Regiment (on 02/02/1915, 05/01/1915). Major General (project 05/01/1915; Art. 11/28/1914; for differences in matters ...). ^[1] The commander of the brigade of the 46th Infantry Division (from 11.21.1915). Commander of the 129th Infantry Division (11/29/1916 - 05/05/1917).

“The 25th Corps was tasked with a demonstrative offensive, on the right flank. After artillery preparation, the 46th Infantry Division moved into the attack, led by the brave general P.P. Karpov, who was ahead of all the attacking chains, with regiment commanders attacking in front of their regiments. The moral upsurge was so great and the blow was so strong that instead of demonstrating, the division slipped through all the lines of the enemy fortifications as the dust swept away all their defenders and went far behind enemy lines. The division stopped and, receiving absolutely no orders from above, temporarily dug in.

Approaching fresh German reserves, in turn, attacked the 46th division, but to no avail. The battle lasted about a day and the division, without receiving any support, was forced to move back, losing a lot of people killed and wounded during this retreat.

Why the 3rd Grenadier Division (3rd Grenadier and 16th Division made up the 25th Army Corps) did not support the 46th at all, why didn’t they use this breakthrough of our German front at all, no one could explain to me. As a result of this miserable, albeit brilliant battle, General Karpov was seriously wounded. Regiment commanders all dropped out of service killed and wounded, not counting the enormous number of killed and wounded officers and soldiers. With such sad news, I returned to my 6th battery ” ^[2] .

At the beginning of 1918 he arrived in Yaroslavl , with his family lived on Dvoryanskaya Street (now - October Avenue), 30, apt. 7. One of the leaders of the Officers' Union in Yaroslavl, relying on military experts who served in various institutions of the Yaroslavl Military District, he numbered 120 people.

He took part in the Yaroslavl uprising of 1918. He was the head of the police of the city of Yaroslavl, which completely went over to the side of the rebels, then - the head of the department of city self-defense. ^[3] On the night of July 16, 1918, he took command of the troops from Colonel A.P. Perkhurov .

“On July 2, a military council was held in the hall of the State Bank. It was attended by 28 generals and 16 colonels.

The meeting of the council was opened by the general. Perkhurov also proposed to elect a chairman. General Karpov, the former commander of the 25th Army Corps, was elected Chairman.

General Perkhurov, as army commander, made a report on the situation at the front and, saying that no further inaction should be made, invited members of the council to comment on this.

After General Perkhurov, General Karpov began to speak. His opinions boiled down to the following:

Sit in Yaroslavl and defend yourself to the last drop of blood. We are not alone - if the entire Volga region has not yet revolted, then we must revolt, and then the Bolsheviks will not be able to cope with us. We can always knock them over and move to Moscow.

Pay due attention to mobilization and organization. Form 4 infantry regiment. Due to the fact that the main role in the uprising was not played by Yaroslavl residents, but by visitors from other places, to appeal to the residents of the city with an appeal - to all become under arms.

Negotiations on peace with the Bolsheviks, proposed through German captive officers, reject " ^[4] .

The mayor of Yaroslavl, V. S. Lopatin, gave the following testimonies during interrogation at the Cheka: "I believe that the city and its population were the victim of a grand provocation, because when things went wrong, the headquarters staff, consisting of outsiders of Yaroslavl military men, hurried from Yaroslavl to hide with Perkhurov at the head, and at the head of the headquarters was completely unbelievable not involved in the military organization, according to him, which I used to believe, General Pyotr Petrovich Karpov, who got into this business as “hens in the soup”. I know Karpova long time ago, but not close, because he was a Omandir of the Ostrolensky regiment when I was a member of the city council. On July 3 (16), Perkhurov wanted to withdraw all the volunteers from the city, but Karpov prevented this from indicating the possibility of the execution of the volunteers by each other, because some of them would consider such leaving as flight " ^{[ 5]} .

Having exhausted the possibilities of resistance, the rebels, led by Karpov, surrendered on July 21 to the German commission of prisoners of war No. 4, headed by Lieutenant Balk, who the next day turned over the entire rebel headquarters and the majority of ordinary members to the Soviet Extraordinary Headquarters of the Yaroslavl Front.

Pyotr Petrovich Karpov was shot in Yaroslavl along with other rebels on September 13, 1918 (according to another version, immediately after the arrest, July 22).

Wife - Vera Robertovna Gernberg (1871 -?) ^[6] .

• He was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree ( July 18, 1915 ).
• Also awarded the Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1899); St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1911); swords to him (1914); St. Anne 3rd degree with swords and bow (1914); St. Vladimir 4th degree with swords and bow (1915); St. Anne of the 2nd degree with swords (1915); St. Stanislav 1st degree with swords (VP ​​08.1915); St. Vladimir 3rd degree with swords (VP ​​02.04.1915); St. Anne 1st degree with swords (1917). .

• Karpov Petr Petrovich
• KARPOV Petr Petrovich
• Myasnikov V. General Plan // Golden Ring. 1993. April 29, p. 6.