Veniamin Petrovich Vodopyanov (incorrectly Vitaliy [1] ; October 1 ( 13 ), 1865 , Orenburg province - 1943 , Ashgabat ) - army foreman , hundreds commander in the Russo-Japanese War , educator of the Nizhny Novgorod Cadet Corps (1913-1918), five cavalier orders, author of the military historical work on the Orenburg 6th Cossack regiment .
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| Date of Birth | October 1 (13), 1865 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Stepnaya village, Trinity district , Orenburg province | ||||||
| Date of death | 1943 | ||||||
| A place of death | Ashgabat , USSR | ||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||
| Type of army | Orenburg Cossack army | ||||||
| Years of service | 1891-1913 | ||||||
| Rank | foreman | ||||||
| Commanded | hundred Siberian regiment | ||||||
| Battles / wars | Central Asian campaigns , Russo-Japanese War | ||||||
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| Retired | historian, writer | ||||||
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Biography
Veniamin Vodopyanov was born on October 1 ( 13 ), 1865 in the village of Stepnaya of the second military department of the Orenburg Cossack army in the family of chief officer ( military foreman ) Peter Vodopyanov. Benjamin graduated from the Orenburg military gymnasium, and then, in 1884, the Orenburg Cossack Cadet Junker School (first class). Vodopyanov began his service from the beginning of October 1881. He received the rank of cornet in 1884, the centurion - in 1888, and the subaul - in 1899. Veniamin Petrovich achieved the rank of Yesaul in August 1906 (for military distinction), and the army foreman in September 1913 [2] .
Vodopyanov served in the 1st separate Orenburg Cossack Hundred . In 1895, he was listed in the 5th Orenburg Cossack Regiment . From 1896 to 1898 he was the ataman of the village of Velikopetrovskaya, and then continued his service in the 6th regiment (1899-1902). In February 1904, Veniamin Vodopyanov was sent to the Siberian Cossack army to be sent to the Far East , where he became a junior officer of the 2nd hundreds of the 7th Siberian Cossack Regiment [2] , according to other sources - he led the regiment [3] .
Veniamin Petrovich participated in the Russo-Japanese War : in the battle of May 29 ( June 11 ), 1904 , he temporarily commanded a hundred, providing volatile communications [2] ; was wounded and captured during a retreat at the Dolinsky Pass in June; was in Japanese captivity until mid-November 1905 [4] .
From 1905 to 1910, Vodopyanov continued his service in the 5th Cossack Regiment. On September 26, 1913, he was dismissed from service with the rank of army foreman - he was declared incapable of military service due to physical health. From 1913 to 1918, Veniamin Petrovich was an officer-educator of the Nizhny Novgorod Cadet Corps . He wrote a military historical work about the history of the 6th regiment, describing the campaigns of the Russian army in Khiva , Bukhara , Kokand [5] . The book was recommended for publication, but in connection with the change of power , it was published at the end of the 20th century [4] [6] - this work is still actively used to restore the history of the Cossack units [7] [8] [9] . The book is also interesting in that it includes stories about the everyday life of the Cossacks [10] [11] . In 1918, during the armed struggle of the Cossacks against the Bolshevik forces, a certain "esaul V. Vodopyanov" headed the third hundred Siberian 1st Cossack Ermak Timofeev regiment [12] . After the Civil War, Vodopyanov lived in Ashgabat , where he died in 1943; was buried there [4] .
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1897)
- Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree (1904-1905)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree with swords (1905, approved in 1907)
- Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree (1910)
- Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with a bow for 25 years of service (1911)
- Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty” [4]
Artwork
- Vodopyanov V.P. History of the 6th Orenburg Cossack Regiment . - M .: First printer, 1996 .-- 358 p. - ISBN 5-89041-010-5 .
- Vodopyanov V. P. Series of essays "Orenburgers in Turkestan" // Military collection. - Petrograd, 1916.
- Vodopyanov V.P. Captured by the Japanese // New Sentinel. - SPb. , 1999. - No. 8-9 .
- Vodopyanov V.P. Captured by the Japanese // New Sentinel. - SPb. , 2002. - No. 13-14 .
- Vodopyanov V.P. Captured by the Japanese // New Sentinel. - SPb. , 2004. - No. 15-16 .
Family
Veniamin Vodopyanov’s nephew was Mikhail Vasilievich Khanzhin (1871-1961) - artillery general (1919), one of the leaders of the White movement in Siberia [2] .
Vodopyanov was twice married. His first wife was Lidia Petrovna Vetberg - the daughter of a retired lieutenant colonel Heinrich Yakovlevich Vetberg. About the second wife, only the name is known - Maria - and the year of birth - 1873. There were nine children in the Vodopyanov family: Eugene (born 1895); Mary (born 1897); Eugene (born 1898); Tatyana (1901-1977) - an astronomer, a participant in World War II , died in Moscow ; George (born 1903) - participant in the Soviet-Finnish and World War II, commander of a separate battalion , honorary citizen of Kolpino; Oleg (born 1910); Igor (born 1912) - lived in Kiev ; Alexander (born 1918); Elena is a military doctor , a participant in World War II [4] .
Notes
- ↑ S. Makarov. 5th Orenburg Cossack Regiment . Cossack club SCARB . www.scarb.ru. Date of treatment December 18, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Ganin, Semenov, 2007 , p. 144.
- ↑ Britvin, 2004 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Ganin, Semenov, 2007 , p. 145.
- ↑ Exhibition "Cossacks", 2011 .
- ↑ Vodopyanov, 1996 , p. one.
- ↑ Kapustina V.M. Historical background (period 1574-1919) . Union of Women Cossacks . refdb.ru. Date of treatment December 18, 2016.
- ↑ Participation in campaigns, battles, operations of Cossacks of the Orenburg Cossack army . Awards and breastplates of the modern Cossacks . cossac-awards.narod.ru. Date of treatment December 18, 2016.
- ↑ Ganin, 2006 , p. 4, 12.
- ↑ Cossacks - the best part of the Russian army (Inaccessible link) . Central City Hospital named after Nekrasova (2014). Date of treatment December 18, 2016. Archived December 20, 2016.
- ↑ Godova, 2005 .
- ↑ Shuldyakov, 2002 , p. 42.
Literature
- Ganin A.V. , Semenov V.G. Vodopyanov Veniamin Petrovich // Officer Corps of the Orenburg Cossack Army. 1891-1945: Biographical reference book . - M .: Russian way ; Library Fund “Russian Abroad” , 2007. - 676 p. - ISBN 978-5-85887-259-7 .
- Godovova E.V. Orenburg Cossack Army in 1798-1865: abstract of a dissertation on history, specialty of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation 07.00.02 / scientific. hands. Yu.S. Zobov, L.I. Futoryansky. - Orenburg, 2005.
- Ganin A.V. Orenburg Cossack army in the late XIX - early XX centuries. (1891-1917): Abstract of dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences, specialty of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation 07.00.02 / scientific. hands. O. R. Ayrapetov. - M. , 2006 .-- 27 p.
- Exhibition "Cossacks - the bastion of Russia" / Universal Scientific Library. N.K. Krupskaya. - Orenburg, 2011 .-- February 7.
- Britvin S.I. Siberian Cossack Army // Transfiguration. - 2004. - No. 9 .
- Shuldyakov V. A. Cossacks of Priishimye at the beginning of the Civil War (summer 1918) // Korkina settlement: Local history almanac. - Ishim: publishing house IGPI them. P.P. Ershova, 2002. - No. 4 . - S. 30-48 .