Krylov, Pavel Nikanorovich

Pavel Nikanorovich Krylov was born on October 29 ( November 10 ) in 1892 on the territory of the Orenburg Cossack army in the family of Cossack Nikanor Krylov. After receiving a general education, Pavel entered the Orenburg Cossack Junker School , which he then successfully graduated from. Krylov joined the Russian Imperial Army shortly before the First World War . From the beginning of October 1914 he was produced in the cornet . At the height of the war, at the end of September 1916, Krylov became a Cossack centurion ( with seniority a year earlier, from September 1915). After the February and October revolutions , in 1918, Pavel Nikanorovich received the shoulder straps of the “ irregular cavalry ” of the porous saul — a new rank was the result of a successful “attack on the Germans” in late August of the previous year, 1917 ^{[1] [2]} .

From the end of December 1914 to the end of August 1915, Krylov participated in the hostilities of the World War — he again took part in the battles from the very end of 1915 to the beginning of June 1916. Until February 1916, Pavel Krylov was the junior officer of the second hundred Orenburg 17th Cossack regiment: during this period, in the middle of August 1915, he, with his departure, on the Narev River fought off eight enemy bicycles. A few days later Pavel Nikanorovich was wounded - “after treatment”, in late February 1916, he was assigned to the Orenburg 3rd Cossack Regiment ^[1] .

As of 1917, Pavel Nikanorovich Krylov continued to be listed in the lists of the 3rd Cossack regiment. In mid-1918 (from July), he joined the armed struggle against the Bolsheviks . The last known event in the military career of Pavel Nikanorovich Krylov was the fact that he received in 1918, under his command, the fourth hundred of the 17th Cossack regiment ^[1] .

Feat

On October 2 ( 15 ), 1916 , Pavel Krylov was awarded the Order of St. George of the Fourth Degree “for being in the battle of June 4 [old style] near the village of Tristen and Vladimirovka, in the sixth hundred [of his] regiment under a strong enemy [German] with the fire of the enemy, at the head of fifty [Cossacks] rushed into the attack, one of the first to join the ranks of the German infantry, crushed them and turned into a stampede, and in a melee [with cold weapons] was seriously wounded ” ^{[1] [3]} .

• Order of St. Stanislav 3 degrees with swords and bow (1917)
• Order of St. Anne, 4 degrees: “for courage”
• Order of St. Vladimir, 4 degrees
• Order of St. George 4 degrees (1916) ^{[4] [3]}

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