Viktor Konstantinovich Manakin (1887–1964) - colonel of the General Staff, hero of the First World War, member of the White movement.
| Victor Konstantinovich Manakin | ||||||||
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| Date of Birth | June 17 (29), 1887 | |||||||
| Place of Birth | Tavastgu Province | |||||||
| Date of death | February 29, 1964 (76 years) | |||||||
| Place of death | Washington , USA | |||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||||
| Rank | the colonel | |||||||
| Battles / Wars | World War I , Civil War | |||||||
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Biography
From the nobility of the St. Petersburg province. The son of a lieutenant colonel.
He graduated from the 2nd Cadet Corps (1904) and the Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1907), from where he was released as a lieutenant in the Life Guards 1st Artillery Brigade. Produced as a lieutenant on April 18, 1910, as head captain - on April 6, 1914.
In 1913 he graduated from the Nikolaev Military Academy on the 1st category. At the end of the academy, he was numbered with the General Staff and seconded to the Life Guards 1st Rifle Regiment for a year and a half to command a company.
With the beginning of the First World War , on February 2, 1915, he was transferred to the General Staff as a captain with the appointment of the 67th Infantry Division as a senior adjutant of the headquarters. Georgievskim weapons awarded
| For being in the headquarters of the 67th Infantry Division and being sent to the commander of the 268th Infantry Poshehonsky regiment, which was ordered on the night of April 28th, 1915 to attack the enemy position on r. Bzura, fulfilled the tasks entrusted to him with selfless bravery; being for 30 hours in the advanced trench at the battlefield itself under rifle, machine-gun and hurricane fire of the enemy's heavy artillery, exposing his life to obvious danger, personally reconnoitered the crossing over the r. Bzuru, elaborated a plan for the upcoming attack, guided all junior commanders with their tasks, established a proper connection between the infantry and artillery, supervised the artillery during the fire attack, and thus really contributed to the successful actions of the detachment. |
On December 13, 1915, he was appointed senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division . November 26, 1916 appointed and. D. Assistant Chief of the Office of the Quarter General-General of the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the armies of the Southwestern Front , and on December 6 of that year he was promoted to lieutenant colonel with approval in office. On December 16, 1916, he was appointed headquarters officer for the instructions of the administration of the quartermaster general of the headquarters of the Commander-in-chief of the armies of the Southwestern Front, and on February 9, 1917, as assistant chief of the operations division of the same department.
According to the memoirs of Major-General Shinkarenko , in May 1917, at the congress of the South-Western Front in Kamenets-Podolsky, Lieutenant Colonel Manakin was one of the first to propose the creation of shock battalions . In July 1917, he was appointed commander of the 1st Impact Revolutionary Regiment of the South-Western Front. In November 1917, by order of General Dukhonin , the 1st Shock Regiment arrived to guard the Stavka in Mogilev, from where the strike battalions were ordered to go to the Don to join the nascent Volunteer Army .
In November — December 1917, making his way to the South, he participated in battles with the Bolsheviks near Belgorod and Unecha. After the defeat of the shock detachment - in Kharkov, then in the Don Army . The participant of the Steppe campaign , on March 31, 1918, was sent to the Cherkassy region to help the rebels, in April — May 1918, he was chief of staff of the Northern Group of Forces. Produced in colonels on May 12, 1918. On June 25, 1918 - chief of staff of the commander of the troops of the Donetsk region. On August 23, 1918, by the order of Ataman Krasnov, he was appointed military governor and commander of the troops of the Balashovsky, Atkarsky and Kamyshinsky districts of the Saratov province. He led the formation of the Saratov Corps as part of the Special Southern Army. From November 27, 1918 he commanded the Kamyshinsky group of troops, which consisted of corps units and Cossack units of the Don Army.
In March 1919, the Saratov Corps was reorganized into a Saratov separate brigade, parts of which later became part of the 6th Infantry Division of the VSYUR . On July 22, 1919, Colonel Manakin was appointed commander of the 2nd brigade of the 6th infantry division, in September 1919 - commander of the 2nd brigade of the Combined Grenadier Division. From October 23, 1919, he was in the reserve of ranks at the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the All-Soviet Union. In November 1919 - in Rostov, was going to the Siberian army . On August 1, 1920 - in the Russian army .
In exile in Yugoslavia, was a member of the Society of Officers of the General Staff. Later he moved to Vienna. [1] In 1949, he moved to the USA, lived for some time in Texas, [2] where he taught Russian at the Southern Methodist University , and also engaged in anti-communist activism [3] [4] . Since 1956 in Washington, where he died in February 1964. Was married. His wife, Maria Manakina, originally from Croatia, died on July 1, 2003, at the age of one hundred and three years. [5] . Daughter - Silvia von Zalish und Grossgraben - lived in Vienna, from 1949 in the United States.
Awards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd century. (VP 8.05.1913)
- Order of St. Anne 4th century with the inscription "for courage" (VP 28.06.1915)
- Order of St. Anne 3rd century. with swords and bow (VP 09.09.1915)
- Georgievsk weapons (VP 29.08.1916)
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree with swords (GP 13.11.1916)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th century with swords and bow (VP 14.11.1916)
- seniority in the rank of captain from March 24, 1912 (VP 15.08.1916)
Notes
- ↑ News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio) · Fri, Feb 19, 1954 · Page 8
- ↑ Malone, James H Thru Malone, James L
- ↑ showDoc.html
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Theresa M. Cirrincione Adjun ... - The Washington Post
Sources
- Shinkarenko N. Udarniki Manakina // Don Wave . 1918. № 17. - p. 3.
- Volkov S.V. White movement. Encyclopedia of civil war. - SPb .: “Neva”, 2002. - p. 322.
- A. Ganin. The corps of officers of the General Staff during the Civil War of 1917-1922. Reference materials. - M., 2009. - p. 274.
- Klepov M. Yu. Officers - George Knight of the First World War. - M .: "The Last", 2015.
- Manakin, Victor Konstantinovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."