Antoniy Georgievich Pio-Ulsky ( May 16, 1894 - February 20, 1956 ) - member of the White Movement in southern Russia , Colonel of the Kornilov Artillery Brigade .
Biography
From an old noble family. Born in Oranienbaum . The son of a professor at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, Major General George Nikolayevich Pio-Ulsky and his wife Natalia Antonovna Youth-Shanyavskaya.
In 1913 he graduated from the 1st Cadet Corps and entered the Konstantinovsky Artillery School , at the end of whose crash course, on December 1, 1914, he was promoted to second lieutenant with enrollment in field light artillery. Then he was transferred to the 18th artillery brigade , with which he participated in the First World War . He was promoted to lieutenant on October 12, 1916, and as captains of staff on September 26, 1917. He was the commander of the 5th battery of the 18th artillery brigade.
In November 1917 he joined the Volunteer Army . As part of the 3rd separate battery, he participated in the 1st Kuban campaign . In November 1919 - commander of the 1st battery of the Kornilovskaya artillery brigade , lieutenant colonel. Before the evacuation of Crimea, he served in the same brigade as part of the Russian army, Baron Wrangel . In 1920 he was promoted to colonel ; on October 31, 1921 he was awarded the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker . Gallipoli . In 1921 - in the 1st battery of the Kornilov artillery division, in the fall of 1925 - as part of the same division in Yugoslavia. He headed the group of the Gallipoli Society and the Kornilov Artillery Brigade in Belgrade, and was a member of the Society of Artillery Officers.
During the Second World War he served in the Russian Corps : in 1944 - sergeant major in the 3rd battalion of the 2nd regiment, in 1945 - at the ROA officer school. After the war, he was in the Kellerberg camp for displaced persons , from where in 1951 he moved to the United States. He died in 1956 in New York . He was buried in a cemetery in Novo-Diveevo .
He was married to Alexander Nikolaevna Esenovskaya (1899-1995), the former sister of mercy of the 3rd Kornilovsky regiment . Their son Konstantin (born 1935), a mechanical engineer, lives in the United States, the last representative of the Pio-Ulsky family. According to his recollections, in the Kellerberg camp, his father married Vera Dmitrievna Krasnova, the wife of N.N. Krasnov, in a second marriage, so that she could also go to America.
Sources
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