Evgeny Isaakovich Dostovalov (1882-1938) - lieutenant colonel of the General Staff, hero of the First World War. Member of the White Movement in southern Russia, chief of staff of the 1st Army Corps , lieutenant general.
| Evgeny Isaakovich Dostovalov | ||||
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| Date of Birth | June 26 ( July 8 ) 1882 | |||
| Place of Birth | Semipalatinsk region | |||
| Date of death | 1938 | |||
| Affiliation |  Russian Empire White movement the USSR | |||
| Rank | lieutenant general | |||
| Battles / wars | World War I , Civil War | |||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 notes
- 4 Sources
Biography
Orthodox. The son of a state councilor. A native of the Semipalatinsk region .
He graduated from the Siberian Cadet Corps (1900) and the Konstantinovsky Artillery School (1902), from where he was released as second lieutenant to the 26th Artillery Brigade .
With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, he was transferred to the 5th East Siberian Rifle Artillery Division. For military distinctions he was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow. It was made on assignments on August 21, 1905 [1] . On September 10, 1905 he was transferred to the 3rd Artillery Brigade [2] , and on December 30, 1907, he was transferred to the Siberian Reserve Mountain Artillery Division [3] . He was promoted to headquarters captain on September 1, 1909 [4] .
On August 13, 1910 he was transferred to the 52nd artillery brigade [5] . In 1912 he graduated from the Nikolaev Military Academy in the 1st category. May 20, 1912 transferred to the 2nd Turkestan Rifle Artillery Division [6] . In 1913 he was assigned to the 1st Turkestan Rifle Regiment for one year to command the company [7] .
With the outbreak of World War I , on November 16, 1914, he was promoted to captain with the transfer to the General Staff and appointment as the senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 1st Turkestan Rifle Brigade. Granted by St. George's Arms
| For the fact that in an 8-day heavy battle with excellent enemy forces under the mountains. Soldau, acting as chief of staff of the brigade and taking personal, life-threatening, participation in reconnaissance, determined the location of the crossing and, using comprehensive measures and excellent development, ensured the success of the crossing of the gati through a swampy, heavily fortified and defended by the enemy through a marshy, difficult to access traffic river valley Neyds. The implementation of this plan led to a complete victory, and we took an enemy battery and a large number of prisoners, among whom were officers. During the crossing he took the most active part in the battle all the time. |
Awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree
| Because, while correcting the position of assistant to the senior adjutant of the department, the quartermaster general of the headquarters of the 1st Army, on July 4, 1915 in a battle near the mountains. Makov, when some of our units began to retreat and opened a lane into which the Germans could break into, and actually began to penetrate, which could put parts of one corps in a difficult position, correctly assessing the situation, on their own initiative, exposing themselves to mortal danger, under real artillery and with rifle fire, he went to the battlefield to the village of Ulyaski, gave orders on behalf of the division head and, having linked the disparate actions of the troops, restored order in the battle, thereby providing decisive assistance to the transition ashih troops on the offensive and to restore the original position, thus preventing which can occur adverse effects. |
On November 1, 1915, he was appointed correcting the position of assistant to the senior adjutant of the Quartermaster General Staff of the 1st Army . On June 12, 1916, he was appointed senior adjutant on the front line of the headquarters of the Separate Naval Brigade , and on August 15 of the same year he was promoted to lieutenant colonel with the appointment of and. D. Chief of Staff of a separate Naval brigade. December 2, 1916 appointed and. D. Chief of Staff of the Separate Baltic Maritime Division . In 1917 he was appointed and. D. Chief of Staff of the 15th Infantry Division . According to the memoirs of Colonel Messner , Dostovalov never arrived in the division, being busy with political work in Petrograd [8] . On September 15, 1917, he was dismissed for illness with the appointment to the reserve of ranks at the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District .
In December 1917, Colonel Dostovalov was an assistant chief of staff of the Crimean troops. On January 2, 1918 he was captured, released, after which he left the Crimea, according to other sources - he was hiding in the Crimea until the Germans arrived in April 1918. In the spring of 1918 he joined the Volunteer Army , served in the headquarters of the 1st Division . He was promoted to major general . On November 20, 1918 he was appointed head of the Salsky detachment of the Don Army . In February 1919 - commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Astrakhan Army . On June 15, 1919 - a teacher of military sciences of the Kuban Cossack Military School [9] . By August 15, 1919, he was appointed chief of staff of the 1st Army Corps [10] , and from August 27 - at the disposal of the quartermaster general of the headquarters of the Supreme Commander of the All - Union Federal League of Justice . In the fall of 1919 - Chief Quartermaster of the Volunteer Corps, in March 1920 - Chief of Staff of the same corps. In the Russian army - the chief of staff of the 1st army corps. He was promoted to lieutenant general . On December 18, 1920 - in command of the 1st Army Corps in Gallipoli .
By 1922, he moved to shift-shift positions , collaborated in the newspaper "The Eve " and the journal "War and Peace" [11] . Wrote an article “Voluntary tactics overshadowed the art of war” about the causes of the defeat of the white armies [12] . In 1922 he returned to Soviet Russia, a note about his arrival was posted in the Krasnoye Black Sea newspaper on February 1, 1923 [13] . He wrote essays on the Civil War (1924) [14] . The further fate is unknown. Shot in 1938.
Rewards
- Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. with swords and bow (VP 27.12.1905)
- Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. with swords and bow (VP 4.03.1915)
- St. George's Arms (VP 18.03.1915)
- Order of St. Anne 4th Art. with the inscription "for courage" (VP 03.20.1915)
- Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. with swords (VP 7.06.1916)
- Order of St. George 4th Art. (VP 13.10.1916)
Notes
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 776 // Scout . - SPb. , 1905 .-- S. 694 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 778 // Scout . - SPb. , 1905. - S. 729 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 898 // Scout . - SPb. , 1908. - S. 583 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 985 // Scout . - SPb. , 1909. - S. 328 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 1034 // Scout . - SPb. , 1910. - S. 334 .
- ↑ The highest orders of the War Department to No. 1127 // Scout . - SPb. , 1912.- S. 215 .
- ↑ List of the General Staff. Corrected on June 1, 1914. - PG., 1914 .-- S. 636.
- ↑ Evgeny Eduardovich Messner: the fate of a Russian officer. - SPb., 1997 .-- C. 38.
- ↑ Ganin A.V. Corps of officers of the General Staff during the Civil War of 1917-1922. Reference materials. - M., 2009 .-- S. 587.
- ↑ Ganin A.V. Corps of officers of the General Staff during the Civil War of 1917-1922. Reference materials. - M., 2009 .-- S. 608.
- ↑ Russian military emigration of the 20-40s of the XX century. Documents and materials. Volume 5. - M., 2010 .-- C. 671.
- ↑ Dostovalov E.I. Volunteer tactics overshadowed the art of war. // Source. Documents of Russian history. 1994. No3.
- ↑ Russian military emigration of the 20-40s of the XX century. Documents and materials. Volume 3. - M., 2002 .-- S. 317.
- ↑ FEB: Essays by E.I. Dostovalov
Sources
- Volkov S.V. White movement. Encyclopedia of Civil War. - St. Petersburg: "Neva", 2002. - S. 177.
- Ganin A.V. Corps of officers of the General Staff during the Civil War of 1917-1922. Reference materials. - M., 2009 .-- S. 213.
- Klepov M. Yu. Officers - St. George Knights of the First World War. - M .: "Past", 2015.
- Dostovalov, Eugene Isaakovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".
- Historian S.V. Volkov. Database "Participants of the White Movement in Russia" for January 2016. Letter D.