Nikolai Petrovich Lesevitsky (1873-1918) - Colonel of the General Staff, hero of the First World War, member of the White Movement .
| Nikolai Petrovich Lesevitsky | ||||
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| Date of Birth | December 8 (20), 1873 | |||
| Date of death | 1918 | |||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||
| Rank | Colonel | |||
| Battles / wars | World War I | |||
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Biography
Orthodox.
He graduated from the Petrovsky Poltava Cadet Corps (1893) and the 3rd Military Alexander School (1895), from where he was released as second lieutenant to the 2nd mortar artillery regiment. He was promoted to lieutenant on July 27, 1899 [1] , and to staff captains on August 25, 1902 [2] . October 10, 1905 transferred to the 6th mortar artillery division [3] .
In 1907 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in the 1st category and on May 7 of the same year he was promoted to captain " for excellent achievements in the sciences " [4] . In 1907-1909 he served the censored company command in the 1st Life Grenadier Ekaterinoslav Regiment . On November 26, 1909 he was transferred to the General Staff with the appointment of the 41st Infantry Division as the senior adjutant of the headquarters [5] . On January 10, 1911, he was appointed senior adjutant to the headquarters of the Grenadier Corps .
On March 2, 1914, he was appointed senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 5th Army Corps , with whom he entered the First World War . Granted by St. George's Arms
| For the fact that in the battle near Varka on October 12 and 13, 1914, as a senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 5th Army Corps, he contributed to the highest degree in achieving the goal set by the detachment to render assistance to the Grenadier Corps; under the closest enemy fire, he established contact with units of the Grenadier Corps, and found out the exact location of the units of the 28th Polotsk Infantry Regiment scattered around the edge of the forest. Seeing the enemy bypassing the village of Grabov, on his own initiative he brought into battle the battalion of the 40th Kolyvan Infantry Regiment, which stopped the enemy’s pressure in this direction and encouraged some companies that were exhausted in an unequal battle by personal example. |
Awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree
| Because, while correcting the post of chief of staff of the 67th Infantry Division, in the battle on November 20, 1914 near the village of Mala-Merzhanchka, at a time when the Germans broke through our very stretched position and, having left behind some of our troops, they threatened with a deep detour of our entire position, personally skillfully guiding the actions of the 2 batteries and 5 companies transferred to him in command, being under fire all the time and clearly risking their life, not only stopped the development of the enemy’s success, but turned his presumptuous units into flight. Thanks to these bold and decisive actions, our troops were given the opportunity to continue to fulfill their mission. |
On February 18, 1915, he was appointed correcting the post of chief of staff of the 67th Infantry Division , and on March 22 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel with approval in office. December 6, 1915 promoted to colonel . July 3, 1916 appointed and. the chief of staff of the 7th Special Infantry Brigade, and on January 13, 1917 - the commander of the 202nd Infantry Gori Regiment . July 22, 1917 appointed and. D. General for assignments under the commander of the 3rd Army.
At the end of 1917 he was the quartermaster general of the field headquarters of the Kuban army, in January-February 1918 he was the commander of a volunteer detachment in the Kuban. During the 1st Kuban campaign he remained ill in villages, was shot in March 1918 in the town of Goryachiy Klyuch . His widow Sofya Alexandrovna died in 1944 in Germany.
Rewards
- Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (VP 05/18/1905)
- Order of St. Anne, 3rd art. (VP 5.02.1913)
- Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd art. with swords (VP 7.01.1915)
- Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. with swords (VP 7.01.1915)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. with swords and bow (VP 1.03.1915)
- St. George's Arms (VP 05/05/1915)
- swords and bow to the Order of St. Anne 3rd art. (VP 11.11.1915)
- Order of St. Anne 4th Art. with the inscription "for courage" (VP 27.01.1916)
- Order of St. George 4th Art. (VP 09/26/1916)
Notes
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 459 // Scout . - SPb. , 1899. - S. 678 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 620 // Scout . - SPb. , 1902. - S. 817 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 783–784 // Scout . - SPb. , 1905.- S. 822 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 864 // Scout . - SPb. , 1907. - S. 232 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 997 // Scout . - SPb. , 1909. - S. 433 .
Sources
- Volkov S.V. White movement. Encyclopedia of Civil War. - St. Petersburg: "Neva", 2002. - S. 306.
- Klepov M. Yu. Officers - St. George Knights of the First World War. - M .: "Past", 2015.
- Lesevitsky, Nikolai Petrovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Historian S.V. Volkov. Database "Participants of the White Movement in Russia" for January 2016. The letter L.