Grabbe, Aleksandr Pavlovich (1838-1863) - staff captain, participant of the Caucasian campaigns and actions against Polish rebels . He died in the battle of Sendzewice .
| Alexander Pavlovich Grabbe | |
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| Date of Birth | 1838 |
| Date of death | August 19 ( 31 ), 1863 |
| A place of death | Sendzeyvice ( Lask ) village, Poland |
| Affiliation |  Russia |
| Type of army | Cavalry |
| Rank | Head Captain |
| Part | Seversky Dragoon E.I.V. Heir to the Tsesarevich Regiment , Grodno Hussar Life Guards Regiment |
| Battles / wars | Caucasian war Polish uprising of 1863
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| Awards and prizes | Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd art., Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th art. |
Biography
The son of Adjutant General P. X. Grabbe , born in 1838, a graduate of the Page Corps , in 1857 was promoted to lieutenant of the Seversky Dragoon Regiment , located in the Caucasus , where he served for 6 years, participating in expeditions and affairs with highlanders . For military distinctions and outstanding courage, he received orders from St. Stanislav 3rd degree to St. Vladimir of the 4th degree (all with swords) inclusively and the rank of staff captain.
At the beginning of 1863, Grabbe was transferred to the Life Guards Grodno Hussar Regiment and took part in operations against Polish rebels . In early August, he was in the convoy of the adjutant colonel Kloth , destroyed a gang of Parczewski (near Wilkowice) with a small team of Caucasian linear Cossacks, and then was wounded while pursuing Bentkowski’s gang.
On the night of August 14-15, with a detachment of 42 people, including four officers of the Grodno regiment: lieutenant A.N. Witmer , [1] Prince Urusov, Cornet Ermolov and army foreman Manotskov, near the village of Sendzieowice (near Lask ), Grabbe overtook Bentkowski, who had already joined the party of Tacanovsky, and the strength of the insurgents reached up to 2 thousand people. The insurgents promised the hussars how to "gentry brothers" life for the extradition of the Cossacks and the transition to their side. Those in response ... attacked the enemy. Being surrounded by Poles, Grabbe and his detachment heroically defended themselves for 3 hours, repelled several attacks, but in the end almost all were killed or wounded, only 4 people were saved (including Lieutenant Witmer captured). Desperate to break the wounded Russians, the gentry drove the peasants out of the nearest villages and drove the crowd around them, hoping that the last bullets and blades of the heroes would get bogged down in the mass of this "squadron". When the main forces of the Grodno Hussars regiment entered the village of Sendzewice, they found alive some of the mortally wounded heroes, including commander A.P. Grabbe. Grabbe, severely wounded, after five days of torment, died on August 19, 1863, repeating all this time in delirium: "Give me my horse, I have to ride ... fly ..." Regarding his death, Emperor Alexander II in a rescript to the hero’s father, general Adjutant Grabbe, on August 21, 1863, expressed his “emotional distress” about the loss of the “high-hoped officer” [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Alexander Pavlovich Grabbe and the Battle of Senjiowitz , memoirs of A.N. Witmer
- ↑ Memoirs of A.P. Grabbe, St. Petersburg, 1873; Officer reports and articles by G. Miloradovich, A. Witmer, Safonov and others.
Literature
- Grabbe, Alexander Pavlovich // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
- Memoirs of A.P. Grabbe , St. Petersburg, 1873; Officer reports and articles by G. Miloradovich, A. Witmer, Safonov and others.
- Military historical collection , 1914, No. 1, p. 161-172 (under the heading: A five-day expedition and a few words about courage)
- T.G. Anokhina, G.A. Glavatsky, K.V. Dushenko, A.A. Liberman, G.A. Petrova, L.N. Podgug, K.K. Tarasov, K.I. Fetisova, I.I. Filimonova, N.F. Filippova. The history of pre-revolutionary Russia in diaries and memoirs. 1857-1894 / L.N. Arms - M .: Book, 1979.- T. 3.1. (inaccessible link)
- Sokol K. G. Monumental monuments of the Russian Empire: Catalog. - M .: Vagrius Plus, 2006 .-- 432 p. - ISBN 5-98525-018-0 .
Obituaries
- Head Captain L.-G. Grodno Hussar Regiment A.P. Grabbe // Russian invalid . - No. 189 . - S. 810 .
- Guard headquarters captain Grabbe and line Cossacks. Lineets Safonov // Russian invalid . - No. 193 . - S. 826 .
- The heroic death of headquarters captain Grabbe // Severnaya Pochta . - No. 189 . - S. 767 .
- Also published in the Heroic Death of Headquarters Captain Grabbe // Son of the Fatherland . - No. 209 . - S. 1651-1652 .
- The heroic death of headquarters captain Grabbe // News. - No. 4 .