Bogaevsky, Nikolai Venediktovich

Nikolai Bogaevsky was born on February 6, 1843. He was brought up in the 1st cadet corps ; On June 13, 1862 he was promoted to second lieutenant in engineer battalions with a secondment to the Nikolaev Engineering Academy , from where he was released into military engineers in 1864.

In 1865 he was appointed to Turkestan in the detachment of General Chernyaev , in 1866 he participated in the campaign of D.I. Romanovsky to Dzhizak through the Hungry Steppe and in the battle of Irjar, where the army of the Bukhara emir Muzaffar was defeated, and then - during the siege of the fortified city of Khojent , taken by storm; for the difference in the campaign of 1867 he was awarded the orders of sv. Stanislav 3rd degree with swords and bow and St. Vladimir 4th degree.

In 1868, he participated in an expedition to the Nuratyn-tau mountains and, after occupying these mountains, in a campaign to Samarkand , in a battle at the Chapan-Ata heights when crossing the river. Zeravshan and the occupation of Samarkand. When General K.P. Kaufman led the main forces of the army to Zerabulak, Bogaevsky remained part of the Samarkand garrison and was one of the participants in the eight-day defense of the Samarkand citadel from the rebel residents and troops of the Shakhrisyabz beks Jura-biya and Bab-biya, was wounded by a bullet in the side; for the difference in hostilities against the Bukhara Khanate in 1869 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree.

In 1870, Nikolai Venediktovich Bogaevsky participated in the expedition of A.K. Abramov to the upper reaches of Zarafshan and in the assault on the cities of Shaar and Kitab in the Shakhrisyabz oasis, was awarded gold weapons with the inscription “for courage” and promoted to lieutenant colonel (March 16) ) January 21, 1874 for the difference promoted to colonel .

In the years 1875-1876 he was on an expedition with General V. N. Trotsky to the Kokand Khanate , in the battle of Makhram and was part of the detachment of M. D. Skobelev during the occupation of Namangan ; For this campaign he was awarded the Order of St. 3rd degree Vladimir with swords. In 1878 he accompanied General Kaufman on a trip to inspect the border with Afghanistan ; for compiling an engineering description of the border, he received a diamond ring with the monogram of Emperor Alexander II .

In 1880, he was transferred from Tashkent to Verny to submission to General G.A. Kolpakovsky , who was sent to Kuldzh as part of the occupation detachment, where he remained until the surrender of the eastern part of the Ili region to the Chinese government in 1882.

On March 4, 1881, Bogaevsky was promoted to major general with seniority on the basis of the Manifesto on February 18, 1762 (subsequently established from April 8, 1884), and on September 20, 1882 he was appointed chief of engineers of the Odessa Military District . On August 30, 1894 he was promoted to lieutenant general , on September 9 of the same year he was appointed head of the 34th Infantry Division , and on June 21, 1899 he was transferred to the post of commandant of the Novogeorgievskaya fortress . In 1903 he was awarded the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky , and on December 6, 1904, Bogaevsky received the rank of General Engineer .

On March 21, 1906, Bogaevsky was appointed assistant commander of the Odessa Military District and, under the conditions of the first Russian revolution, from August 14, 1906 to April 20, 1907 was simultaneously interim governor general of the southern mining and plant area.

On April 12, 1908, Bogaevsky was appointed a member of the Military Council and remained in this position until the end of his life.

Nikolai Venediktovich Bogaevsky died on September 12, 1912 in Geneva , while in foreign prison. Buried at the family cemetery in Novocherkassk .

In the military-technical literature, the research of N. V. Bogaevsky on building materials of the Turkestan Territory, published in the Engineering Journal, is known.

The brother of Nikolai Venediktovich Ivan Venediktovich Bogaevsky rose to the rank of general from infantry and was the head of the 16th Infantry Division .

For his service, Bogaevsky was awarded numerous orders, including:

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree with swords and bow (1867)
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree (1867)
• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1869; imperial crown granted to this order in 1872)
• Golden weapon “For courage” (1870)
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree with swords (1876)
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1883)
• Order of St. Anne 1st degree (1886)
• Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd degree (1893)
• Order of the White Eagle (1898)
• Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (December 6, 1903; diamond signs of this order were granted on December 6, 1909)

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