Vitold-Mechislav Ignatievich Stomma ( 1868 - after 1941 ) - Russian military, RIA major general [1] , lieutenant general of the Lithuanian Army .
| Stomma Vitold-Mechislav Ignatievich | |||||||
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| Date of Birth | March 13, 1868 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Perm province , Russian empire | ||||||
| Date of death | after 1941 | ||||||
| Place of death | the USSR | ||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian Empire of the  the USSR | ||||||
| Rank |  major general | ||||||
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil war in Russia | ||||||
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Biography
Born March 13, 1868 in the Perm province.
He studied at the Alexander Cadet Corps . He entered military service on August 30, 1885. Then he graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and was released into the 28th Artillery Brigade [2] [3] , where he received the rank of second lieutenant (1886) and lieutenant (1890). In 1893 he served in the same brigade. In the same year he graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy [4] and was promoted to headquarters captain . In the period from 07/27/1895 to 09/24/1896 Vitold-Mechislav Stomma served as an assistant to the workshop director of the St. Petersburg Cartridge Plant [5] . In 1896 he was promoted to lieutenant of the guard and became the head of the workshops of the cartridge factory. Staff captain of the guard since 1896, captain of the guard since 1900, colonel since 1904. He was the head of the workshops on February 22, 1912, then - the assistant to the head of the household.
During the First World War, Stomma served as an assistant to the chief of the Petrograd cartridge plant for technical matters, received the rank of major general on December 6, 1915. After the October Revolution, he served in the Red Army . Until 1921 he was an engineer in the workshops of the Central Artillery Administration of the Red Army. In the spring of 1921 he left for Lithuania and entered the service in the Lithuanian army . Lieutenant General since July 14, head of artillery weapons workshops since July 23, 1921. For the leadership inactive according to the Bolsheviks, in March 1922 he was arrested and in November of the same year he was transferred to the reserve. He lived in the estate of Jasuliškės, Ukmerge county (now the Ukmergė region of Lithuania). September 15, 1933 was dismissed. After Lithuania joined the Soviet Union , he was arrested by the NKVD and in June 1941 he was taken to Siberia .
According to the site geni.com , he died on October 26, 1947, according to other sources [6] - in 1946.
He was the author of the article “Solemn declaration of war (on July 20 of the old style of 1914 at the Winter Palace in Petrograd)”, published in Belgrade in 1936. [7]
Rewards
- He was awarded the orders of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1898), St. Anne 3rd degree (1903), St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1911), St. Anne 2nd degree (1913), St. Vladimir 4th degree (1915), as well as the Belgian Order of St. Leopold .