Boris Nikolaevich Sergeevsky (1883-1976) - member of the White movement in southern Russia, Colonel of the General Staff.
| Boris Nikolaevich Sergeevsky | |
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| Date of Birth | February 27 ( March 11 ) 1883 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | May 31, 1976 (93 years old) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , USA |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles / wars | World War I , Civil War |
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Biography
From the hereditary nobles of the Pskov province. The son of a member of the State Council, Senator Nikolai Dmitrievich Sergeevsky and his wife Anna Ivanovna Dityatina.
He was educated at the Larino Gymnasium , after which he entered the military service with a gold medal.
In 1904 he graduated from the Konstantinovsky Artillery School , from where he was released as second lieutenant in the Life Guards Rifle Artillery Division. Manufactured on assignments on December 6, 1907. As a volunteer, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute . In 1911 he graduated from the Nikolaev Military Academy in the 1st category and on May 7 of the same year was promoted to headquarters captain " for his excellent achievements in science ."
On July 14, 1914 he was transferred to the General Staff as captain , with the appointment of chief officer for assignments at the headquarters of the 22nd Army Corps , with which he entered the First World War . On December 18, 1914 - corrective position as chief of staff of the 3rd Finland Rifle Brigade. Granted by St. George's Arms
| For the fact that on May 18, 1915, when the units of the 2nd brigade of the 78th Infantry Division left, with the complete loss of communication between the units of the detachment and the neighboring division of the 3rd Finland Rifle Division, he subjugated the militia company on his own initiative, collected the departing the lower ranks and occupied by these units, under enemy artillery fire, a position north of Stryi and restored the connection lost between the above-mentioned units. In the battles of May 24 and 28 near the village of Zhuravno, he assisted the chief of staff of the 3rd Finland Rifle Division in carrying out the tasks assigned to the division. |
On June 23, 1915 he was appointed senior adjutant to the headquarters of the 3rd Finland Rifle Division. August 4, 1915 appointed and. D. the chief officer for assignments at the headquarters of the 40th Army Corps, and on April 10, 1916, was promoted to lieutenant colonel with approval in office. Participated in the Lutsk breakthrough , within 4 months he corrected the position of chief of staff of the corps. On February 18, 1917, he was appointed headquarters officer for paperwork and assignments under the leadership of the Quartermaster General under the Supreme Commander . Produced by Colonels on August 15, 1917. In November 1917, on the eve of the Krylenko detachmentβs occupation, he took leave and went to Tiflis, where he appeared at the headquarters of the Caucasian Army and was appointed assistant chief of staff of the Combined-Armenian detachment. From December 17, 1917, he was at the disposal of the Chief of Staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Caucasian Front. In March 1918 he was appointed chief of staff of the 1st Russian Transcaucasian Rifle Division, which was soon disbanded by the Georgian government.
In the Civil War he participated in the White movement. September 8, 1918 he arrived at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army in Yekaterinodar and was credited to the reserve ranks. Then he was appointed headquarters officer for errands under the control of the quartermaster general of the commander in chief. January 24, 1919 he was appointed chief of staff of the 5th Infantry Division , in March of the same year he was removed from office. On May 15, 1919, he was appointed head of the communications department of the quartermaster general of the headquarters of the Volunteer Army. In April 1920, in the Crimea he was appointed a teacher at the Konstantinovsky Military School. In the summer of 1920, as part of the school, he participated in the Kuban landing . In November 1920, he was evacuated from Crimea to Gallipoli , where he was the commander of an officer company of the school. In 1921 he arrived with a school in Bulgaria, from where in 1922 he was expelled by the Bulgarian authorities to Yugoslavia together with General Kutepov .
In exile in Yugoslavia. He was a member of the Society of Officers of the General Staff and chairman of the Association of Kiev-Konstantinovtsi in Gorazd. He was a teacher of the Don Cadet Corps , the Higher Military Scientific Courses and the Russian-Serbian Gymnasium in Belgrade. In 1943 he was appointed director of the gymnasium, with which in 1944 he was evacuated to Germany. He restored gymnasium classes in a refugee camp near Munich. At the same time in 1949-1950 he headed the 2nd department of the EMRO . In 1951 he moved to the United States, taught at a Russian parish school in San Francisco. He participated in the work of Russian military organizations, was the editor of the Bulletin of the Society of Russian Veterans of the Great War. Collected a significant archive of military history. The author of memoirs, articles and works on Russian history.
He died in 1976 in Los Angeles. Buried in a local cemetery. Wife Elizaveta Ernestovna, their son Andrei (1928-2010) was the head of the Union of Russian Falconies.
Rewards
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. with swords and bow (VP 18.12.1914)
- St. George's weapons (VP 21.11.1915)
- Order of St. Anne , 2nd art. with swords (VP ββ03.25.1916)
- Order of St. Anne 4th Art. with the inscription "for courage" (VP 30.05.1916)
- Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. with swords (VP ββ31.08.1916)
Compositions
- Outlived. 1914 .-- Belgrade, 1933 .-- 192 s.
- The history of military art. - Belgrade, 1939.
- The past of the Russian land: a brief historical outline. - New York, 1954.
- Renunciation. 1917. - New York, 1969.
Sources
- Sukharev Yu. N. Materials on the history of the Russian scientific abroad. Prince 1. - M., 2002 .-- S. 437.
- Rutych N. N. Biographical Directory of the Highest Ranks of the Volunteer Army and Armed Forces of the South of Russia. - M., 2002.
- Alexandrov E.A. Russians in North America. - Hamden (USA) - San Francisco (USA) - St. Petersburg (Russia), 2005 .-- S. 457.
- Historian S.V. Volkov. Database "Participants of the White Movement in Russia" for January 2016. The letter C.
- Sergeevsky, Boris Nikolaevich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".