Aleksandr Vladimir Gerua ( March 24, 1870 - not earlier than 1944 ) - Russian military leader, lieutenant general ( 1917 ).
| Alexander Vladimirovich Gerua | ||||||||||
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| Affiliation |  Russian empire White movement Romania | |||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | |||||||||
| Rank |  Lieutenant general | |||||||||
| Commanded | 7th Finland Rifle Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, 18th Army Corps | |||||||||
| Battles / wars | Russian-Japanese war World War I Civil War | |||||||||
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| Communications | grandson of engineer-general A.K. Gerua , the son of Major General V.A. Gerua , brother of Major General B.V. Gerua | |||||||||
Content
- 1 Initial biography
- 2 Military career
- 3 Activities during the civil war
- 4 emigration
- 5 Awards
- 6 Works
- 7 References
Initial Biography
Alexander Vladimirovich Gerua was born on March 24, 1870.
In 1891 he graduated from the Page Corps , and in 1898 - from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff .
Military career
Since 1891, Alexander Gerua served in the Life Guards of the Jaeger Regiment as a second lieutenant, and since 1895 as a lieutenant.
In 1898, he was promoted to captain of the guard with renaming as captain of the General Staff. At the same time he was at the headquarters of the Moscow Military District.
From 1901 to 1902 he served as a senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 22nd Infantry Division and commanded a company in the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment. In 1902 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In the same year he was appointed headquarters officer for special assignments at the headquarters of the 6th Army Corps, where he served until 1903.
From 1903 to 1904, Alexander Gerua worked as head of the General Staff.
He took part in the Russian-Japanese war as a head officer in the management of the 5th Infantry Brigade. During the war he was wounded.
From 1905 to 1906 he was seconded to the General Staff.
In 1906 he was elevated to colonel. In the same year he was seconded to the Main Directorate of the General Staff, in which he served until the next year . From April to September 1907 he commanded a battalion of the life guard of the Jaeger regiment.
In 1907, Alexander Gerua published his military-theoretical work βTowards the knowledge of the armyβ.
From 1907 to 1909 he worked as the head of the department of the General Staff, and from 1909 to 1911 he was seconded to the General Directorate of the General Staff.
From 1911 to 1912 he worked as chief of staff of the 22nd Infantry Division, from 1912 to 1914 - commander of the 7th Finland Rifle Regiment, from February 4, 1914 to January 25, 1915 - commander of the Life Guards Volyn Regiment , and from January to October 1915 - quartermaster general of the headquarters of the 5th , then 12th army .
From October 1915 to October 1916, Alexander Gerua commanded the 38th Infantry Division.
Since October 1916 - and. D. Chief of Staff of the 2nd Army. He was the head of the Baltic land detachment.
From July 7, 1917, he commanded the 18th Army Corps , then - the chief of staff of the Romanian Front .
Civil War Activities
Since the end of 1917, Alexander Gerua has collaborated with the Bolsheviks in order to counter German troops. Under the command of General A.V. Schwartz, he was the chief of staff of the Northern Section of the Petrograd Region.
After the conclusion of the Brest Peace, he conducted active illegal anti-Bolshevik work, transferring officers to the White Guard units of the Northern Front and, at the same time, one of the leaders of the Russian Revival Union .
On March 25, 1918, Alexander Gerua was transferred to the reserve and in the middle of 1918 left for the south of Russia .
From October 1918 he was a representative under the head of the French military mission, General Berthelot , from October 1919 - the head of the mission of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia in Bucharest , and from April 1920 - the military representative of the High Command and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich in Romania .
Emigration
After the defeat of the White Guard, Alexander Gerua remained in Romania, where he worked as chairman of the Union of Disabled Persons in Romania .
In 1923, in Sofia, he published the military theoretical work The Hordes, which examined the issue of the advantages of small armies. Gerua himself opposed universal military duty, and adhered to the principle of small professional armed forces.
After the entry of Soviet troops into Bucharest in 1944, Alexander Gerua was arrested by SMERSH authorities and was taken to the USSR .
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (1903);
- Order of St. Anne 3rd Art. with swords and bow (1906);
- Order of St. Vladimir, 4th art. with swords and bow (1906);
- Golden weapons (VP ββ21.09.1907);
- Order of St. Anne 4th Art. (May 08, 1909);
- Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (December 6, 1909);
- Order of St. Stanislav 1st Art. (1915);
- Order of St. Anne 1st Art. (1915);
- Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd art. (VP 07.01.1916);
- swords to St. Vladimir 2nd art. (VP 07.14.1916).
Compositions
- Hordes . - Sofia, 1923 .-- 434 p.
- L'ArmΓ©e Rouge et la Guerre Sociale. - Paris, 1931. - 260 p.
Links
- Biography on the Chronos website
- Gerua, Alexander Vladimirovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".