Schilling, Nikolai Nikolaevich

• 1888 - Graduated from the Nikolaev Cadet Corps .
• 1890 - Graduated from the 1st Pavlovsk Military School . Released at the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment .
• 1909 - He was promoted to colonel “for excellence in service” and was appointed assistant commander of the Izmailovsky regiment.
• February 13, 1913 - Commander of the Finland 5th Infantry Regiment , with whom he spoke to the front as part of the XX Army Corps .
• September 13, 1914 - In a battle near the village, Olshknoki led his regiment, which was at the forefront of the brigade, to the attack, for which he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree.
• January 25, 1915 - Awarded with St. George's Arms - for defending a position near the village of Senegow.
• May 19, 1915 - Major General .
• March 16, 1916 - Brigade commander in the 2nd Finland Rifle Division.
• July 1916 - Commander of the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment .
• May 1917 - February 1918 - Commander of the 17th Army Corps .
• After dismissal, he was in Kiev. In November 1918, after the withdrawal of German troops from Ukraine, he was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief General Dolgorukov . He achieved the release from custody of a representative of the Volunteer Army in Kiev, General Lomnovsky, and in December 1918 he was enlisted in the Volunteer Army.
• January 1 - Enrolled in the reserve of the Commander-in-Chief of the All - Union Socialist League in Yekaterinodar.
• February 1919 - Head of the 5th Infantry Division as part of the combined Crimean-Azov Corps General Borovsky .
• April 15-16, 1919 - He distinguished himself in battles at Ak-Monai positions, and was wounded several days later.
• June 1919 - He was promoted to lieutenant general with the appointment of commander of the III Army Corps (formerly consolidated Crimean-Azov Corps). Participated in the liberation of Crimea and exit to New Russia .
• August 1919 - Kherson , Nikolaev and Odessa occupied.
• September 1919 - Chief of the Novorossiysk region . He defeated the troops of Petlyura on the right bank of the Dnieper.
• October 1919 - Occupied Zhmerinka , Mogilev-Podolsky and Proskurov .
• November 1919 - Allocated the 13th and 34th divisions under the command of General Slashchev to fight against Makhno and the defense of Crimea.
• December 4, 1919 - Remaining the commander of the forces of New Russia, he took under his command the troops who retreated from Kiev , "having the task of covering Novorossia and, mainly, the Crimea" ^[1] .
• January 1920 - Due to a shortage of coal for steamboats, he was unable to organize the export by sea from Odessa of the 2nd Army Corps of General M.N. Promtov and the Kiev group of General Bredov . Since the Romanians refused to let these formations into Bessarabia , the units united under the command of Bredov were forced to climb up the Dniester to join the Polish army (the so-called Bredov campaign ).
• March 1920 - After the election of General Wrangel as the Commander-in-Chief of the All - Union Federal League of Justice, he was expelled to the Commander-in-Chief.
• In May 1920, by order of Wrangel, he was put on trial on charges of having surrendered Odessa to the Bolsheviks, without taking sufficient measures to defend the city, and had not established proper discipline in the troops entrusted to him, which caused their final decomposition. On June 4, 1920, by the verdict of a military court in Sevastopol, he was sentenced to death, but this sentence was canceled.
• November 1920 - Emigrated to Czechoslovakia.
• May 1945 - After the liberation of Prague by Soviet troops, was arrested by SMERSH , but released due to health and old age.
• Early 1946 - Died in Prague . He was buried in the crypt of the Assumption Church in the Olshansky cemetery .

General Schilling collaborated in the emigrant press, in particular in the magazine Chasovoy (see, for example, No. 121 of February 15, 1934). General Schilling signed his articles as general from infantry. When dismissed by General Wrangel in March 1920, General Schilling remained Lieutenant General. Us ^{[to whom? ]} failed to set the date of production of General Schilling as generals from infantry. In all likelihood, this was ordered by the corps of the Imperial Army and Navy by Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich already in exile. Such production was not recognized in the ROVS .

Married to Sofia Ivanovna Timasheva (1884-1941), soloist of the Imperial Petersburg Opera House. A cancer patient, she remained, after a serious operation, in Kiev in 1918 and, subsequently, refused to leave for emigration with her husband. Helped the Bolsheviks. In 1921, the Cheka was arrested, and then released at the request of. ^[2] In 1925, apparently, ended up in Czechoslovakia. Where she died in Prague in 1941 (buried in the Olshansky cemetery).

• Svechin A. A. The art of driving a regiment based on the experience of the war of 1914-18 .. - M. - L .: State Publishing House, Department of Military Literature , 1930. - T. I. - 216 p. - 5000 copies

• Schilling, Nikolai Nikolaevich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
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