Koch, Vladimir Matveevich von

Military Service

From a noble family of Swedish descent. Orthodox. In 1879 he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Count Arakcheev’s military gymnasium and enrolled in the 3rd Alexander Military School , from where he was first -ranked second lieutenant (art. 8 August 1881) with enlistment in the army infantry and seconded to the Life Guards Volyn Regiment . Soon he was transferred to this regiment with the rank of ensign , then he received the rank of second lieutenant (August 30, 1884), lieutenant (August 8, 1885) and staff captain (June 21, 1892) of the guard.

After graduating from the Military Law Academy in the first category, he was renamed the captain of the military court and from June 1893 to February 1895 he was a candidate for military court positions at the Warsaw Military District Court. On February 25, 1895, he joined the military training department, having been appointed assistant class inspector of the Orenburg Cadet Corps and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on December 6 of the same year, and on September 17, 1901, he became class inspector of the same corps. Colonel (April 14, 1902).

On August 11, 1905 he was transferred to the Tashkent Cadet Corps as a class inspector under the director of Major General V.V. Volyntsevich-Sidorovich, and after his resignation on August 10, 1908, already with the rank of Major General (from April 13, 1908) was appointed director of the corps and held this position until the end of the old army (spring 1918).

A graduate of the Tashkent Cadet Corps P. I. Krylov (enrolled in 1911 and released in 1918) left memories of the corps during Koch’s direction, of the teaching staff (among which mathematician I. F. Gorsky and ornithologist N. A. Zarudny stood out) and level of training ^[1] .

Musical activity

Koch was a famous amateur cellist. Even while serving in Orenburg in the early 1900s, he taught S. M. Kozolupov to play the cello, who, after an injury to his left arm, could no longer play the violin ^[2] . In Tashkent, his house became a prominent cultural center, participants of the string quartet gathered in it, pianists S. Vonsovskaya and V. Chernetskaya played the piano. After the revolution, Koch performed in concerts as a cellist and, when the Turkestan National Conservatory, the first musical educational institution in Central Asia, was established in 1918, he began to teach in it and became part of her board ^[3] .

Subsequently, Koch moved to Moscow, died no earlier than 1928. ^[4] .

Brothers:

• Alexander Matveevich von Koch (1861-1937), state adviser, inspector of printing houses in Warsaw, commissioner for peasant affairs in the Warsaw province, official of the Ministry of Finance, died in exile in France
• Nikolai Matveevich von Koch (1866 - after 1917), state adviser, member of the Council of the Peasant Land Bank . During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 - Commissioner of the Yekaterinoslavsky infirmary of the Red Cross, the Yekaterinoslav provincial zemstvo and the Catherine railway at the station Urulga in Transbaikalia. He did a lot to organize the successful operation of the hospital for 120 wounded. Regularly reported about this in memoranda to the Yekaterinoslav provincial zemstvo council. Until January 1912 - manager of the Penza branch of the Peasant Land and Noble Land Banks, then appointed to the central office of the Peasant Bank. Presumably this Nick. Koch in 1918 by the hetman of all Ukraine Pavel Skoropadsky according to the historian Dm. Doroshenko was appointed a county warden in the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region.
• Leonid (Leopold) Matveevich von Koch (1874-1938), like Vladimir, initially served in the Life Guards Volyn Regiment, reaching the rank of colonel (1914), a participant in the 1st World War; repressed, shot, in 1955 rehabilitated posthumously; his daughter Elena Leonidovna (1900-1938) was married to the Soviet intelligence officer, the division commissar (1935) Joseph Isaevich Zilbert (1899-1939)

Vladimir Matveevich himself was married and had three children. A. Tatishchev , who was then the head of the Turkestan Department of Agriculture and State Property, recalled his daughters as his “main company” in Tashkent ^[5] .

The Koch family in 1902-1917 belonged to Dacha Zayets in St. Petersburg (Primorsky highway 568A), she is also Dacha of Okesson. ^{[6] [7]}

• Order of St. Stanislav 3 tbsp. (1895)
• Order of St. Anne 3 tbsp. (1901)
• Order of St. Stanislav 2 tbsp. (1906)
• Order of St. Vladimir 3 tbsp. (1911)
• Order of St. Stanislav 1 tbsp. (1915)

• Volkov S.V. Generality of the Russian Empire. Encyclopedic dictionary of generals and admirals from Peter I to Nicholas II. T. 1. AK. - M., 2009. - S. 707. - ISBN 978-5-9524-4166-8
• List to the generals by seniority. Compiled on 04/15/1914. - Petrograd, 1914 .-- S. 506.
• Gurkovsky V.A. Cadet corps of the Russian Empire. T. 2. - M., 2005. - ISBN 5-98353-007-0

• Koch, Vladimir Matveevich von (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
• Biography on the site "Russian Imperial Army"