Mstislav Vladimirovich Mezernitsky (1895-1937) - member of the White movement in southern Russia , commander of the 8th cavalry regiment of the Russian army , colonel.
| Mstislav Vladimirovich Mezernitsky | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | April 12 (24), 1895 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | August 21, 1937 (42 years old) |
| A place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Affiliation |  White movement the USSR |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Awards and prizes |  |
Biography
From the nobles. The son of a retired lieutenant colonel Vladimir Semenovich Mezernitsky [1] [2] .
He received his secondary education at the St. Petersburg 1st Real College, whose six-year course he graduated in 1912 [3] .
With the outbreak of World War I, he entered the Vladimir Military School , at the end of the crash course of which, on September 1, 1915, he was promoted to ensign with admission to the army infantry. He was promoted to second lieutenant on August 8, 1916, transferred to the Life Guards Volyn Regiment on September 6 of the same year. He was promoted to lieutenant on May 12, 1917 [4] , to staff captains on August 1 of the same year [5] . He was a company commander. In October 1917, he participated in battles with the Bolsheviks in Petrograd.
November 4, 1917 arrived in Novocherkassk , where he joined the Alekseevsky organization . When Rostov was captured, he commanded the 2nd Cadet Company of the Junkers Battalion , one of the first units of the Volunteer Army . Participated in the 1st Kuban campaign in the Kornilov shock regiment . Then he was sent to the North Caucasus to create clandestine officer organizations. In July 1918 he participated in the capture of Stavropol, then was the commander of the 6th Kuban Plastun battalion, partisan detachment and, finally, the equestrian division. In the spring of 1919 - Yesaul of the Kuban Cossack army, later renamed captains . In October 1919 - early 1920, he was the head of the convoy of the commander of the 3rd Army Corps of the All-Union Military Union of Liberal Democratic Forces, General Slashchev . In the spring of 1920 he was promoted to colonel and appointed commander of the 8th cavalry regiment, in which position remained until the evacuation of Crimea . Awarded the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
| For the fact that in the battle of May 25, 1920 under the village Davydovka dashing horse attack, at the head of two squadrons of his regiment, overturned the cavalry of the enemy, which helped our infantry to occupy the named village. In the battle of May 26, near s. Akimovka horseback overturned the enemy infantry and captured 700 prisoners and several machine guns. |
In 1921 he arrived in Soviet Russia from Constantinople with General Slashchev. Since 1922 he was a secret officer in the counterintelligence department of the OGPU , since 1924 he participated in Operation Trust . After 1931 he served in a special department of the plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU of the East Siberian Territory , went on special business trips to Mongolia and China. He was an instructor of extra-departmental police in Mongolia. Arrested on June 15, 1937 in Ulan Bator and, in a special order, sentenced to VMN . He was shot on August 21, 1937 in Moscow. The ashes are buried in the New Don cemetery .
In the 1920s, Mezernitsky, on the instructions of the Soviet leadership, wrote memoirs that were preserved in the collections of the Russian State Archives of Artists and were partially published in the journal " Cadet Roll Call " in 1996.
Notes
- β List of army captains in seniority. Compiled on January 1, 1905 - St. Petersburg, 1905. - S. 56.
- β The highest orders of the War Department to No. 871 // Scout . - SPb. , 1907. - S. 307 .
- β Historical sketch of the St. Petersburg First Real School, 1862-1912 - St. Petersburg, 1912. - P. 218.
- β Army and Fleet of Free Russia , No. 158. Official Division. - July 9, 1917 - S. 4.
- β Army and Fleet of Free Russia, No. 189. Official Division. - August 15, 1917 - S. 2.
Sources
- Mezernitsky M.V. So the first blood was shed // Cadet roll call, No. 59. - New York, 1996. - P. 62.
- Recent battles of the Armed forces of the South of Russia / S.V. Volkov. - M .: Tsentrpoligraf, 2004 .-- S. 441.
- Foreign intelligence of the USSR / Klim Degtyarev, Alexander Kolpakidi. - M .: Eksmo, 2009.
- Moscow, shooting lists - Don crematorium