Eugene Feliksovich Elsner (1867-1930) - lieutenant general, chief supply chief of the armies of the Southwestern Front . Member of the White Movement, one of the founders of the Volunteer Army .
| Evgeny Feliksovich Elsner | |||||
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| Date of Birth | December 12, 1867 | ||||
| Date of death | July 5, 1930 (aged 62) | ||||
| Place of death | White Church , Yugoslavia | ||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||
| Type of army | General base | ||||
| Years of service | 1885-1920 | ||||
| Rank | lieutenant general | ||||
| Battles / wars | World War I , Civil War | ||||
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Biography
Orthodox. From the nobles.
He graduated from the Tiflis Cadet Corps (1885) and the Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1888), from where he was released as a second lieutenant to the 18th horse-artillery battery.
Ranks: lieutenant (1890), staff captain (1895), captain (1897), lieutenant colonel (1901), colonel (for distinction, 1905), major general (1911), lieutenant general (1915).
In 1895 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in the 1st category. After graduating from the academy, he was chief officer for assignments at the headquarters of the Caucasian Military District (1896–1901) and senior adjutant to the headquarters of the same district (1901–1904). In 1904 he was appointed chief of staff of the 6th district of the Separate Border Guard Corps . February 20, 1906 was appointed corrective of the position of the Stavropol governor .
From August 25, 1906, he was on secondment to the Main Department of State Security, then he was the clerk of the Asian department of the General Staff (1907) and the head of the department of the General Staff (1907-1910). September 22, 1910 was appointed assistant to the head of the department for the arrangement and service of the GUGSH troops. April 10, 1911 promoted to major general " for distinction ." On August 25, 1912 he was appointed assistant to the head of the Main Directorate for Housing allowances of troops.
With the outbreak of the First World War , on July 19, 1914 he was appointed Assistant to the Chief Chief, and on July 23, 1916 - Chief Chief of Supply of the armies of the Southwestern Front . In August 1917, he supported Kornilov’s speech by sending a telegram to the Provisional Government about his solidarity with Generals Kornilov and Denikin . He was dismissed on August 30, 1917. He was arrested in Zhitomir at the request of workers and soldiers of the local garrison. He was detained first in Berdichev , and then in Bykhov along with the rest of those arrested in the Kornilov case.
In December 1917 he went to the Don, where he became one of the founders of the Volunteer Army . In January 1918, he was appointed head of the supply of the Volunteer Army, in which position and performed on the 1st Kuban campaign , being also the head of the cart with ammunition and ambulance transport with the wounded. In June 1918 he was appointed plenipotentiary representative of the Volunteer Army under the Don Ataman, General Krasnov , in which position he held until February 1919. After being elected ataman, General Bogaevsky returned to the supply department of the headquarters of the All-Union Union of Liberal Democratic Forces. He was seriously ill, was evacuated to Serbia in March 1920.
In exile in Yugoslavia. In 1921-1929 he was a teacher of the Crimean, and then the First Russian Cadet Corps . He was a member of the Society of Officers of the General Staff. He lived in the White Church, where he died in 1930. Buried in a local cemetery.
Family
He was married to Maria Mikhailovna Sazonova (1872-1962). Their sons:
- Igor (b. 1893), graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1913), colonel of the Life Guards of the 1st Artillery Brigade. Member of the White Movement as a part of the All-Union Socialist League and the Wrangel Russian Army. In exile in Czechoslovakia.
- Vladimir (d. 1987), graduated from the Alexander Cadet Corps (1917), volunteer. In exile in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, after 1945 - in Argentina and Venezuela.
- Alexey (d. 2002), cadet of the Don Cadet Corps. In exile in Yugoslavia, he graduated from the Crimean Cadet Corps (1925), engineer. After 1945 - in Argentina.
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1897);
- Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1900);
- Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. (1903);
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (1908);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1910);
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. (December 6, 1912);
- Order of St. Anne 1st Art. (April 6, 1914);
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd art. (VP 03/18/1915);
- Order of the White Eagle (12/6/1915).
Links
- Elsner, Evgeny Feliksovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Biography on the site "Russian Imperial Army"
- Volkov S. V. Database “Participants of the White movement in Russia”