Gavriil Ivanovich Volzhinsky ( March 25, 1855 - not earlier than 1917) - artillery retired major general, participant in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 , writer.
| Gavriil Ivanovich Volzhinsky | |||||||
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| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||
| Type of army | artillery | ||||||
| Years of service | 1872 (1874 ) - 1913 | ||||||
| Rank |  major general | ||||||
| Commanded | 1st division of the 4th artillery brigade | ||||||
| Battles / wars | Russian-Turkish war (1877-1878) | ||||||
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Biography
Orthodox religion. He was educated at the Petrovsky Poltava Military Gymnasium , after which on August 9 , 1872 he entered the service of the 38th Artillery Brigade [1] . Later he graduated from the 1st Pavlovsk Military School and Officer Artillery School. August 7 , 1874 received the first officer rank of ensign. From October 15 , 1875 - lieutenant, and from October 9 , 1876 - lieutenant [2] .
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, Volzhinsky commanded a platoon in the 2nd battery of the 38th artillery brigade at the Caucasian theater of operations . On June 28, 1877, as part of the Erivan detachment, he participated in the liberation of the Russian garrison besieged in the citadel of Bayazet , where the Volzhinsky artillery platoon, being on the front line, significantly contributed to the occupation of the city by Russian units [3] . In the same war he was shell-shocked. It is assigned to the 2nd class of wounded [2] .
At the end of the war on December 18 , 1878, Volzhinsky was awarded the rank of staff captain. Since December 21, 1889 - captain. As of 1890, he served in the 20th flying artillery park [1] . September 27, 1898 received the rank of lieutenant colonel and assumed the post of commander of the personnel reserve battery of the 48th artillery brigade. On February 14 , 1908 he was promoted to colonel, and on January 18 of the following year he was appointed commander of the 1st Division of the 4th Artillery Brigade [2] .
March 25, 1913 Volzhinsky was promoted to major general with dismissal from service at the age qualification (on the day of the 58th anniversary), with a uniform and pension [4] . He lived in St. Petersburg (hereinafter - Petrograd, on Borovaya St. ). As of 1917 - Assistant Manager of the Petrograd Military Hotel [5] .
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree with the inscription "For courage" (1877)
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1882)
- Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree (1896)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1900)
- Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with a bow for 25 years of service (1901)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (1905)
Volzhinsky Bibliography
- Cholera Prevention Products (Warsaw, 1908)
- Conversations with lower ranks for the 100th anniversary of World War II (Warsaw, 1908)
- The 300th anniversary of the lifting of the siege from the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra: January 12, 1610 - January 12, 1910 (Warsaw, 1910)
- The liberation of the Bayazet fortress from the blockade of the Turks: From military and military marching memories of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 (Warsaw, 1911)
- Conversations with lower ranks about our nearest neighbor Germany ( St. Petersburg , 1911)
- Conversations with lower ranks about the benefits brought to mankind by fiction writings ( St. Petersburg , 1911)
- Talks on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 ( St. Petersburg , 1911)
- People's conversations about our nearest neighbor Germany ( St. Petersburg , 1911)
- People's conversations about the benefits brought to mankind by fiction writing ( St. Petersburg , 1911)
- Napoleon and Russia: On the 100th anniversary of World War II ( St. Petersburg , 1912)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Pavlovsky I.F. Ch. 2. List of cadets who graduated from the Petrovsky-Poltava cadet corps and the Petrovsky-Poltava military gymnasium, renamed the cadet corps in 1882 // Historical sketch of the Petrovsky Poltava cadet corps. 1840-1890 . - Poltava: Type. Governorate. Board, 1890. - S. 51.
- ↑ 1 2 3 List of colonels in seniority. - Compiled on March 1, 1913. - SPb. : Military type., 1913. - S. 414.
- ↑ Tomkeev V.I. Materials for the description of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. at the Caucasus-Asia Minor Theater: in 7 volumes / Ed. I.S. Chernyavsky . - Tf. : Electric furnace. headquarters of the Caucasus. military man. okr., 1908. - T. 4. - S. 257.
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department // Scout / Edited by V.A. Berezovsky . - SPb. : Type. Trenke and Fyusno, 1913. - No. 1171 . - S. 123-124 .
- ↑ All of Petrograd for 1917. - 2nd ed. - Pg. : T-in A. S. Suvorin - "New time", 1917. - S. 132, Dep. 3. - ISBN 5-94030-052-9 .