Egorov Sergey Vasilievich ( 1881 -?) - Russian military leader, St. George Knight [1] .
| Egorov Sergey Vasilievich | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | September 30, 1881 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Luzgarino village Yegoryevsky district , Ryazan province Russian empire | |||||
| Date of death | is unknown | |||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||
| Rank |  lieutenant lieutenant | |||||
| Battles / wars | World War I | |||||
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Biography
Born September 30, 1881 in the village of Luzgarino, Yegoryevsky district, Ryazan province [2] in a peasant family
He graduated from the three-year Zemstvo national school in his native village, then the Yegoryevsky gymnasium and the Moscow 7th gymnasium, after which he entered the Konstantinovsky artillery school , where he completed three courses and was graduated on July 12, 1914 as a second lieutenant in the 14th mortar artillery division of the 14th army corps . On March 2, 1915, of his own free will, he transferred to the infantry - the 71st Belevsky Infantry Regiment .
Member of the First World War . He started the war on western Nolme, participated in the battles of Lublin, of San, and went all over Galicia. Second Lieutenant Egorov was wounded and shell-shocked several times. On October 3, 1916, near Dvinsk, surrounded by Germans, he did not surrender, broke into bayonets, and was seriously wounded in the shoulder and taken out of battle by his soldiers. He was evacuated to Tsarskoye Selo to the infirmary of Her Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Empress Alexandra Fedorovna at the Red Cross community, from where he was discharged for return to the regiment on November 27, 1916. At the end of treatment, the Empress was introduced, from whom she received an icon and a prayer book autographed by the Empress. [2]
The further fate and date of death of S. V. Egorov is unknown.
Rewards
- He was awarded the orders of St. Anne of the 4th degree, St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow, St. Anne of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow.
- He was also awarded the St. George Arms (Order of 07/04/1915, “Because a mortar called up with a platoon to destroy the heavily fortified stronghold of Ms. Dvanevanice and stone buildings reinforced with machine guns, he personally placed himself in the forward trench of 200-300 steps from the enemy’s stronghold and under his strong rifle, machine gun and artillery fire, from March 1 to 5, 1915, with well-aimed fire of his two mortars, at close range, he reached such destruction of buildings and a wall adapted for defense that the enemy cleared this reference paragraph " [2] ) and the Order of St. George 4th class (Order of 10/13/1916, " because on September 10, 1915 in battle at the village of Kasuta, having received orders from the commander of a neighboring regiment to get to the Germans left 2 To the cannons located between our and enemy chains, and if they cannot be taken, then to render them unusable, accompanied by several mounted scouts, under the enemy’s gunfire, jumped to the abandoned guns, turned one of them personally and opened fire on the enemy chain , ordered the scouts to turn another gun and, opening from it fire, repulsed the Germans who had come to it on the flank; continuing firing under gun fire and enemy heavy artillery fire to the last shell, forced an armored vehicle to retreat, Sub-Lieutenant EGOROV, having thus won time, made it possible to bring our front axes, which had taken out both enemy guns and six charging boxes located in the same backways " [2] ).